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[quote user="ml8"]So sometimes i just wonder why do you need 6C33C at all, with your high-sensitive speakers.[/quote]
This thread is a derivation of the “5 Channel Version of Melquiades” thread:
http://www.GoodSoundClub.com/TreeItem.aspx?PostID=406...
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[quote user="Jordi"] If I build them ... I'm going to use different cases. Man, the one's shown are U-G-L-Y. [/quote]
To my view the chassis for the full-range Melquiades is not ugly, in fact I do appreciate the design immensely, functionally a...
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There is a number of people who asked me if I build Melquiades or if I know anyone who does it. I do not build them for sale and I do not know currently any technician who would offer his services to build Melquiades.
I know some folks who might be ...
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What would I do if I move to a much larger room and the power of Milq’s full 6C33C would not be enough? Surely it would be possible to go for transmission tubes but they all high plate impedance and high voltage. If I parallel all my bass drivers and...
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Here is a separate thread where any questions and answers regarding how to build Melquiades might be piled up. ...
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[quote user="cb"] Also i stick a 30k resistor in R3 and the results are very good. [/quote]R3 is Milq’s loading resistor and it hardly to do anything with amp itself. Milq has own input loading is floating on the bias chains and it has a ...
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Here is the general specification for the parts that I used. The selection of the parts implies some liberty of course. It will be your amp after all, not mine - do whatever you wish. In some case when I feel that requirement is critical I will stres...
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Here are the basics of the 6-Chennal Melquiades DSET Amplifier complete, without secondary features.
http://www.RomyTheCat.com/PDF/6-Chennal_Melquiades_DSET_Amplifier.pdfRgs, Romy the caT...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
[/quote]OK, now, after mach thinking, consulting and very little actual listening I have finally conceptualized my next move with powering Macondo MF channel. Considering that I have some extra space Melquiades’ ...
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I received an email from a reader of my site who came from DIYAudio.com (he stressed it) and who lives a couple of states away. He is willing to build a full-range Melquiades amps but before he would like to fly over and to listen my playback, making...
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I would like to share my observations about public perception of Melquiades - The Realty Reconstructions Amplifier.
Melquiades, or as I affectedly-abridgedly call it “the Melq” was released to pubic exactly a year ago:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/...
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Well, it is always difficult to me to deal with audio people because any expressing any abstract notion in front of them those enslaved people perceived as a preamble to some kind of “deliverable good” and the sick audiophile imagination has already ...
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[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]As a way of forcing myself to see the thing as a whole, I will start by converting this schematic to a 3D CAD model, illustrating each component and its relation to the others (with more distance between the parts than in ...
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I was replacing transformers in the Super Milq HF channels and while I was doing it I decided to perform a minor maintenance on the amp. One of the amp’s fans developed a “flat” in it bearing and created a very minor “step”. I order a replaceme...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] This is to me the most difficult problem to solve. For example, you may decide that your problem is a lack of spaciousness, which may be due to a lack of correct delay, wrong bass response, poor detail retrieval or whatever....
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Sure, Chris, if I would be able to make the air-trans of acceptable size then I would defiantly go for it. If I pretend that the Super Milq pushed some boundaries (and I do feel it) then to use an air-core transformer for HF channel is exactly what i...
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Hi Decoud:I cannot but help noticing that you are based in the UK (like myself presently), and since I am not the only one considering building the Melquiades at some point, it might be of interest to many readers, if you have the time and inclinatio...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]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 (lik...
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Image in post above is power supply.And amp in this image....
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Hi Romy,One my channels started emitting intermittent loud popping sounds, once every few minutes or so, and on inspection the current (set at 240mA) was in excess of 300 (my meters top out at 300). Assuming it is a tube problem I replaced the 6c33c,...
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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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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]
I wonder if anyone heard any deserving attention headphone amplifiers? Any further advise to a person who never imploded any dedicated headphone amps?
[/quote]Did you have a chance to hear Single Power gears? I'm p...
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Ok, it took 2.5 hours to mount the transformers and chokes. The transformers above are filament transformer and high voltage transformer. (The super Melq has all high voltages coils as separate transformers). The 3 chokes above are input chokes for f...
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OK, the next step is kind of done. All transformers and chokes are done form “outside” of the amp (under the bulge). I have attached the capacitors and the output transformer to the “inside”. This silicone attachment that for the computer grade...
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Building the Melquiades: #3
Spent last might 3 more hours to pile up in one of the Melq the rest of the parts. It looks like now all detachable parts are there. Whatever parts have no assess anymore are wired and the main ground is in place. Pretty ...
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OK, I was looking today at the par of the new Melquiadeses posted above and realized they are too ugly to sit them in my room over the 4th July holydays. So, spending another fey hours I designed to end the project and put it behind me. I still do no...
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(Quote from your post) "... by building any serious horns you will very fast overgrow the ML2's ability to be flexible." Yes, this is in fact what I meant by "limitations imposed by of a pair of SET amps such as the ML2s". Would it be possible to ada...
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I do not exactly comfortable with oxric’s preoccupation with “parts”. Yes, there are some amps that invest a lot of attention into parts quality – the silver winding in Kondo, oil caps in BAT, of silver foil caps in AN might be the examples. Melquiad...
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I am not a DIYer and have no skills nor knowledge to build the Melquiades, so I contacted a technician here to have one built. He said he could make it and stated the cost at around 3000USD including his working time. He suggested some changes in the...
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It hard at this point to sat anything defiantly about the Super Melquiades sound. Positively to derive the speakers directly from amp with no speaker-level crossover does provide multiple and multiple benefits. So, Even if to subtract all other “diff...
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