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The 3-channel version of the Melquiades on steroids - the Super Melquiades SET is over. There are still some minor adjustments doing on but they mostly take place outside of the Melquiades. I think in a week or two the amps with the mated speakers wi...
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I wonder if you're doing your listening with the Bidat using its volume pot or you're using only vinyl with your phono correctors or maybe the ET-T-834 EAR using its volume pot. Maybe the Melquiades has its own attenuators. I'll be glad to know how y...
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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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Roman,Thanks for your prompt reply!May be my last wordings have misled you. I didnt mean I was interested in expetimenting gas tube biasing for D3a or another tube. Instead, I am rather interested in putting a gas tube biased 6e5p in front of a ss am...
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[quote user="AnonymousUser"] Sorry for the delay but my computer is down! I would like you to tell me squarely why your amp sounds to your ears better than the lamms tenors and the likes! what is if you prefer the impact of yur driver stage compared ...
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The Super Melquiades Amplifier is essentially the 3 parallel running Melquiades amplifiers optimized for driving my Macondo Acoustic System, with line-level or inner-stage filters. This SET uses a full 6C33C at LF output and ½ of 6C33C for HF and MF ...
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It is interesting: I am running now Zarathustra amp with my woofer towers, line-level crossed at 90Hz with fist order. Everything is very fine bass-wise, with very minute touch of dominating smoothness. To my surprise the typical upper-bass har...
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Hi,Every so often, someone contacts me and asks for some information about my plans (presently on hold) to build Melquiades Full-Range or D-Set, and whether I have a list of parts etc. My experience of trying to find a builder for Melquiades has not ...
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[quote user="hagtech"] For a single driver, looks to me like you need an input signal of at least 3Vrms. A lot of linestages can do that, so a single tube power amp seems both reasonable and interesting. [/quote]
What actually I discovered the...
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So, I have decided I want to hear the Melquiades in my system. But, I do not have the ability to build one myself. I am looking to hire a skilled builder that would be interested in building the Melquiades for me.Contact me at: ...
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Eventually the right channel of the last revision of the 6-Channel Super Melquiades is complete. It has the new dedicated power supplies for single-stage amplifiers, the 600V Schottky rectification for 200V line and 1200V Schottky for 400V lines, the...
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There is not permission required. You might repeat the original Melquiades if you wish. All that you need is the circuit and ~$1500 per monoblock. Currently I withhold the devaluing the Melquiades schematic as I need to accumulate my own live-supply ...
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I am always curious about those silly lines.The 230V 165mA point for the LF sections does not look so bad to me... maybe a bit of expansion effect, which could be good for counteracting some evil within the LF drivers.If I understand right,...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I do not exactly comfortable with oxric’s preoccupation with “parts”...There is nothing wrong with the selection of the parts that I provided; in fact I personal feel that they were the right parts at that time. So, with th...
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There has been one year of frustration about something that "shouldn't" work. I will maintain, if we want another go, then we have to hook up Melquiades/Macondo and get our ears back to where they were. Then we repeat the Dunnoy experiment. Maybe the...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] I just wish that I had my Lamm M1.1, that baby would set the things straight….The Cat[/quote]Is this guy still in storage? Well, the Melquiades going to graveyard... Would be the piece to use for reference testing, no? r...
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Decoud, Would you mind giving some specifics of your system and room? Your observations should be considered within context. I personally have been interested in the Melquiades strengths and limitations and it is within a whole system that these obse...
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Yes, Jessie, but in case you decide to go for DSET, would it be multi-channel Melquiades or anything else, then your consideration for type and topology of the lower bass would greatly dictate requirements for your DSET. If your lower bass channels r...
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And email from a site’s visitor:….
“And for my full-range Melquiades, should I still try and build the original version or wait to see result of what you are working on now?”
This is a complicated question about 2-stage Melquiades vs. single-stage...
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[quote user="Dominic"]I know there are millions of ways to implement a digital amp, but i have no idea how easy it is to switch from one implementation to another. Or whether they sound any different.I got to thinking. Maybe a Bottlehead kit of some ...
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I was yesterday drawing plans for the Zaratustra II’s chassis and was wondering how I might use it. The Zaratustra II turned out to be a little Monster, efforts-wise and expanses-wise. I hope it will demonstrate some results that will rectify the eff...
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I see now. Quad can’t be driven by single 6C33C. This is well know fact and I did a lot of experiments with Quads and Lamm ML-2.0. For whatever reason as ML-2.0 drives Quads it produces Stingy Sound. I can’t explain it but it is not the sound that ML...
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As I read that darkmoebius wants the amps for a vintage dream "never-built" Olsen cornerhorn I have to ask myself if Melquiades is the first choice for his project. For one thing, do I remember correctly that you eschewed feedbac...
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One of the most frustrating things in hi-fi, IMO, is using the wrong speakers for your room and/or the wrong speaker/amp pairing. It is impossible to get anything right or to even get started if you don't get this right (enough). For exam...
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Ok, the Headphone “Baby Melquiades” protect is over. Well, kind of over as there are some issues still are hanging in there.
A brief summary. The initial idea was to use the Melquiades’ input stage to drive headphones. Unfortunately it did not...
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Last week and this weekend I been spending some considerable amount of time and efforts to do what I intended to do for long time – to finalize the Macondo’s ideas. What I mean is that with all Melquiades progress, the fundamental channel, with Injec...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]If I were you then I would not pursue for any amplifier and particularly DSET. If you are building the building a multi-way horn system but build it, drive it from whatever amplifier your have now, get a good sound and good...
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[quote user="cv"]I wonder if it is the reactive components (blocking caps etc) that are to blame here, seeing as much of the problem is in the lower bass.[/quote]Chris, what you said made me to think.
Look, the output of Bidat and a SS buffer that b...
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.. and therefore I do not know how serious to take you.As far as I know as now there are no people who have built Melquiades. I know that up to now about 5 attempts to do it but no one finished it yet up to the point that might report result. Dima is...
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