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Has anyone built the DIY Melquiades amp shown on this site? Looks like an easy DIY project to pop off over a weekend. If I build them (which would be PURELY for fun because they're not going to be able to compete with my sweet sweet Quicksi...
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After a few years I have again pair of Lamm ML2 in my room and I decide to take advantage and render my experience with this amp into a format of my today’s understanding. I know ML2 quiet we and used it with a number of loads. Over the time I develo...
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[quote user="AnonymousUser"] Line level crossing or passive speaker level crossovers-same devil. [/quote]
If you are planning to build a dedicated LF SET then the line level crossing vs. passive speaker level crossovers is not the same devil. With a...
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Dima, thank you for your explanation.I would very much appreciate understanding "the inner-reasoning of the processes and . . . about the theory of the Melquiades and under-hood". I am sure that there are many other people who would also b...
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I'd think you're raving your last toy in the same way "audio people" do at other forums ;-)I'm still puzzling my mind about how can the damn thing sound and which are its "sound features" explaining its musical behaviour. Nothing would make me happie...
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[quote user="KOTriode"] The Melquiades give me inspiration to build this 6C33C amplifier. It's on a stereo chassis that has few unique features - Vacuum tube rectifier separately for Input/Driver and Output tubes. - Regulator using the same tube ...
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Ok, I just read your "Melquides Remote biasing". This technic can not be duplicate in my amp due to DC coupling, the C3G (I dont use 6E5P) driver stage basically adjust the 6C33C current in the output stage. Just for curiosity, I will build a mono bl...
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Amp at close to clipping level 20.4W, I am surprised that sine wave looked pretty symmetrical. Still has couple chassis left for the Melquiades, the problem is the 400V supplies which required extra power supplies. This interstage amp is so much simp...
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Thanks for this one Romy, very interesting...it sorta ties together several things that I have been thinking about lately. I guess I am lucky that the Bass Cannons can be run off 9w from the DSET bottom channel and from memory I get about 115dB at 1...
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I'm a little late to the party here, but better than never I suppose! I'm getting there with parts acquisition, I have valves and output transformers, chokes on order. Next will be power transformers, and finally.. everything else.. Decoud did you e...
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Thanks for comment, decoud. If you live with Melquiades for a while then you might discover that it will moderate your listening interests with time. I do not know what you are listening now but be if you spend substantial amount of time with Milq th...
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Being in the final phases of tuning my Macondo/Melquiades, I am most interested where you may go with 2.0 Romy. I'm so in love with my setup that I feel it will be quite some time before the honeymoon is over......
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Romy, do you have first hand listening experience of these YL drivers? If so, in what sort of installation? Doubtless you will refer me to an extant thread, but how is it that you dealt with the S2's secondary resonance? "Killing the S2's sound" in a...
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Hi Fellow Forumers,This is my first newbie post :-) Do any of you have any experience with running a Lundahl 1627 in a Full Range Melquiades with Avantgarde Duo Omega speakers?The other options are to get some custom Amorphous OPT's <50R 350mA 8:1...
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Two weeks ago I have finalized the last revision of my Macondo and spent some time to tune everything, making it to perform right. Why I did it I had a retrospective view over the last 8 year of Macondo “invention”. What I felt to do was to put the i...
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I have to admit that the live Zander’s Bruckner Fifth from the end of 2007 made me to re-think how I would like Macondo to sound. It is not that I recognized new Macondo’s “Hi-Fi problems”, whatever it has I am very comfortable with it, but I rather ...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]Now, how does it sound and what you drive with
it?[/quote]I own or have owned a number of amplifiers with valves before this, Pathos Twin Towers, Audion, Audio Note, Jadis etc. One of my friends who has the same Avantgarde...
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It is a pity you can't be persuaded to get an OEM like http://www.meixingaudio.com/ to make the Melquiades commercially for you. Perhaps it might be possible when Jessie starts making the Macondo......
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Thanks for the comments. I believe that a preamp giving the same kind of benefits of Melquiades and being able to deliver them with any power amp and speakers would be something truly great. I know it won't be the same than the amps, but probably som...
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Jim, yes, I use the 6E5P as triode, I never tried tetrodes, never has needs to do it. I have somebody tried them as tetrodes and commented negatively about their sound. I do not know if it is true – it what “they say”. Ironically I do not like how th...
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Dominik Any further progress on the project of the Melquiades? Curious about the transformers from Pieter. Any comments?
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Dear Romy, after a lot of delays I finally found someone technical to build Melquiades. I'm afraid that I may disturb you a lot with questions.Anyhow the first question is:for some of resistors no value for wattage is mentioned like R4,R5,R6...R9,R10...
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[quote user="AnonymousUser"]hi-i have downloaded the circuit diagram for your amp but wondered if you have any photos of the "guts" so i can see how you laid yours out ? [/quote]
I do not have a full rage Milq anymore. I have only the 3-chanals Supe...
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[quote user="AnonymousUser"]I appreciate your patience with my electrical questions.As a good friend mentioned to me when discussing the unsolved mysteries of tubes amplifiers "I look out at the stars, the God Of Triodes winks at me, I know ...
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hello AntonioI am thinking of launching into building or rather having buitl by a techie friend a pair of melquiades. Could you tell me more about the cost of building a pair of these amps? then how do they compare to other amps? I mean are they real...
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I did an interesting experiment today trying to learn if those Melquiades driver tubes have even gain. The Russian tubes are notorious to have very widely spreading specification, so….
I took 14 6E6P. Some of then were new, some used and some violen...
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...that the Dunlavys have ever been in the mix N-Set. Pretty sure they are parked up in the corner with the rest of Macondo/Melquiades....
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Merely the horn-loaded combination of an S2 and a Fane 8M, driven by a full range Melquiades, is a world away from any ordinary speaker. It requires musical intelligence to arrive at that conclusion in the first place, iterating over a million possib...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not think that my “resistance” to transformer preamplifiers” has to do with audio neutrality and particularly in context of “improved audio neutrality” as I do not think that neutrality might be “improved” (though it m...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Is this because of the way you are driving them?When testing my one completed mid-bass horn (AK151 into 40Hz Exponential with 8" throat), and powering it from an amp that drives everything from upper bass to HF, the output...
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