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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Tube pre-amp with ss amp for tube sound by muddasir on 2010-07-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Does tube preamplifier VTL would add tube sound to system in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Thanks paul for well thought reply. Two things need clarifiication, i am not new to the subject and am a constant and avid reader.Secondly my preference for music is hobby for electronics and pleasure of listening through application of mind and know...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: half a tube is better than no tube by hagtech on 2007-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Get, or made up a tube tester, it’s necessary in Audio For Dummies ™  44 Replies 
[quote]around 135-150mA if you use a single cathode[/quote]Hey, I never thought of this.  You can run 1/2 the tube at a time!  This actually puts it within the limits of the VacuTrace.  I can test each side separately.jh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Does tube preamplifier VTL would add tube sound to system by muddasir on 2010-07-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Does tube preamplifier VTL would add tube sound to system in Audio Discussions  6 Replies 
Hi there every one.A brief about system. Marantz transport---Acustic Arts DAC II-----Krell HRC preamp-----Krell FPB 600 class A amp---B&W 802.Previously i  had a pair of carry 805 SET amps which drived Klipsch KLF 30 any how i was getting a good ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #22: Reliability and stability of 6C33C? by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
Well, I would say that “something is wrong” as what you report it is not how it shall be. I had my doubts about the rational to use 6C33C in direct heating coupling but the “danger” in direct coupling uselessly coming from the plate of the driver...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #11: The built-in tube testers. by Romy the Cat on 2013-08-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Is it the time to change those tubes? in Melquiades Amplifier  11 Replies 
The concept of self-testing boot cycle is nice one but it for sure could not be done during the amp booting. Some tubes do need to warm up and reach the cruse temperature in order to be tested, some do not.  Some tunes (like 6C33C) in fact is best to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Much too much current by JJ Triode on 2022-01-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: R22 in Melquiades Amplifier  34 Replies 
I haven't tried to build a Melquiades but I understand tube electronics decently, so I'd like to comment on this problem.The main question is why Domidaw's output tube is apparently carrying 3 to 4 times as much plate current as it should be. It is p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #224: Cats life ? by unicon on 2010-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Tube traps are mistakably designed as they tend to deal with a very erroneous assertion that it is possible to feel a listening room with some kind of confused and random bass and then to correct the things with...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Stacked Tube Version by jessie.dazzle on 2006-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo Frame modification. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  46 Replies 
At the risk of overloading you... Here are a couple of quick computer drawings showing a version made from 2 inch steel tube... Material cost would be very low. jd*...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #223: The fiberglass tube dilemmas and my Shish-Kebab by Romy the Cat on 2010-10-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
I am playing with the tube traps and at this point I have a dual feeling about them. They are absolutely phenomenal HF absorbents, in fact much more powerful than any other tools I have heard.  They suck HF from the room with a force of a good co...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #317: How to test the DH tubes properly? by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I always was kind of afraid of it. Any single zillion years tube I see is “NOS in box”, “measured as new” or “never work”. So, I wonder where those uses up old tubes are gone? Do people trash them or juts sell them “as n...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #40: You are not lucky with them. by Romy the Cat on 2011-10-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
[quote user="KOTriode"]Romy,The normal bias for the Golden Grid tube for 200V Plate at 200ma is about 70V-80V for the good tubes, the bad tube read 0ma at this bias, when drop to -30V it start reading some current, but can't get to 150-200ma current ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: My DHT experiment: some conclusions. by Romy the Cat on 2008-11-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Ok, I do not know what it was: was it DHT, was it 300B, was it some other specifics of this given amp or whatever… but those two aspects that I named: intentional density of colors and randomness of pace are something that I would like to exercise in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". in Melquiades Amplifier  20 Replies 
Was talking with various audio people about the 6C33C I was amazed that people are so clueless about this tube. The people are so filled with some foolish prejudges and faulty notions about 6C33C that I deseeded to put together a brief “6C33C user ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #99: YO-186 as the output tube. by Romy the Cat on 2009-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
In the thread GM70 vs. 6C33C two year back I have written that the only tube that I would like to trey in Milq besides 6C33C would be YO-186. I am not sure that it might be a right direction or even interesting direction but I picked yesterday a par...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: Input tube and DC heaters by Paul S on 2008-11-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
I don't suppose the input tube was a 437A?And perhaps (at that price) silver trannies?  I have never never knowingly heard silver trannies (apart from my Ortofon step-up), and I wonder why anyone would pay that much for them when amorphous ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #136: Tube tasting by floobydust on 2009-01-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Okay, I think I understand.... and thanks for the link on the YO-186... if I can ever locate some of these I'll be sure to grab some (hmmm, a trip to Russia perhaps). As tubes get very hot internally, there were some procedures for trying to eliminat...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #147: The lights look green for the YO tube by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
Each new idea is an opportunity or a pain to be involved into a new round of custom work. With all my considerations regarding engaging the DHT I more and more biased to have YO186 as the leading candidate, in fact I almost decided to do it.  Fr...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Combine damping, tube cooling and shielding by Romy the Cat on 2007-09-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Herbie's Hal-O Tube Dampers in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
I ordered today from them the 6C33C dumpers and spoke with someone in there. Forthrightly speaking it sounded kind of ugly when the guy on the phone insisted to call the pads as the “anti-vibration instruments”. BTW, I did ask him directly if there i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: "UltraSonic" Hal-O tube dampers by JJ Triode on 2007-11-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Herbie's Hal-O Tube Dampers in Melquiades Amplifier  10 Replies 
Hi Romy, Well, I see in the photos what look like the newer Herbie's Hal-Os with the titanium rings on 2 of the 6C33Cs. Have you made any observation of the sonic effect of these things yet? Rgs, JJ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #30: Recessed tube mounting and other cosmetic issues... by JJ Triode on 2008-02-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The 6E5P tube data. in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
Hi Jim, Romy may not have noticed that the tubes are mounted to the circuit board below the top cover and not at the surface, so the driver in particular looks shorter than it really is. Will the final appearance be similar to the prototype in th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Importance of OPT and type of tube for SET amp bass performance by Rewind on 2013-08-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Small SET’s bass, besides everything- is it about power? in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
I am looking into building a 45 tube SET amp and I keep reading about how important a good output transformer is. I read that cheaper output transformers like Hammond can be okay for mids and highs, but it will also reduce bass performance. If on...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #154: My attitude toward tube rectification. by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
It is only if you chose to employ tube rectification.  Many people claim that tube rectification affects sound greatly in this or that way and they are right, it does. However, it does only because the circuit is designed to be affected by recti...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Claude Perrier and his tube seremony by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Claude Perrier and his tube seremony in Audio Discussions  0 Replies 
I do not know how interesting it is from technological or sonic perspective but the enthusiasm and perseverance of this guy defiantly deserves applauds. Claude Perrier in his 70 makes home direct heated triodes, how many people like him are out ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Shock-absorbing tube sockets. by Romy the Cat on 2006-12-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Shock-absorbing tube sockets. in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
Are any who made high-gain phonostages dealt with vibration damping tube sockets? Since I’m thinking not about my next generation of 85dB gain two-stages phonocorrector: http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=2453 (second page) I wonder ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Shaky tube sound by drdna on 2009-02-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: About the life-expectancy of the new production tubes. in Audio Discussions  9 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]My few period DHT tube all have this springy sound but they also has a long decay of rattling. It is like string attached under the bottom of the drum and when the drum sound dies away them strings continues to vibrate. I ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: The Proliferation of Tube Types by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Technology Timeline in Audio Discussions  4 Replies 
Here is a very good article about the development tube types in the 1920 and the birth of my Telefunken RE-604  http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/ProliferationTubeTypes.pdf  Then, here is very cool later but still old advertising from Telefu...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The tube tuners syndrome by Romy the Cat on 2008-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
  My mind turned back recently to the subject of tube tuners – there were some even that made it happen. I have to admit that I have general difficulties with tube tuners. My past experience with then was not so great. When we are talking abou...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: Tube tuners in Boston by Nerone on 2008-11-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Where are our good Tuners? in Off Air Audio  43 Replies 
Dear Cat, I own tube and SS tuners, and the ones I own now follow a list of other tuners I have owned over the past few years. My SS tuner is an Accuphase T-100. My tube tuners are a Sherwood S-3000V and a Mac MR-67. The difference between a good tub...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Tube tuna by doug s. on 2009-08-17 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A tube tuner? REL Precedent 646C in Off Air Audio  24 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]  doug s. wrote: i have never heard the rel.  but, if you want to hear a tubed tuna at its best, pick up a sherwood s3000ll or later, get it serviced, and run it thru one of your mpx decoders.  or get one w/a built-in sh...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #301: Tube Selection by Paul S on 2020-03-28 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  311 Replies 
Just tossing in as possibilities the old JAN GE 5751s. I had a pair of these that were very interesting, including excellent, very even sound density and truly great LF. The only tubes in my system now are the old, "New York" 6922s in my phono stage,...
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