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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #97: Electromechanically pressurized dialectic by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Problems with horns: upper bass in Horn-Loaded Speakers  109 Replies 
Yes, it is a bit confusing, as I meant to say that it will be a half of capacitance, I said it twice and it looks unclear. Still anybody understands how series capacitance works. BTW, it was a standard practice in before 70, before industry made by-p...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #53: Thinking about my lower bass by Romy the Cat on 2011-03-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s lowest channel. in Horn-Loaded Speakers  150 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] The major minor thing remains to find different lower bass. I said “minor” thing as my lower bass is not bad, in fact I do insist that it is very proper lower bass as I did set it up lately properly…..Despite that I in...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #28: Do abuse your 6C33C. by Romy the Cat on 2011-09-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
KOTriode, I got a feeling that your unfortunate experience with the few presumably bad tubes that and your former experience with DHT tubes made you to treat the 6C33C as it is some kind of fragile princess. Filament burned for more than 20 hrs befor...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #91: General purpose amp?? by Wojtek on 2008-01-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Reading you guys I can hardly imagine how you can use this amp at all going trough the hassle with the tubes and bias.This amp needs to be monitored and pampered constantly and  getting tha thing to work seems to be ceremony on it's own . How do...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: My own experience with 6C33C by Genn on 2006-03-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
Vp = 240v, Vg = -90v, Ip = 165 ma, RL=1k5,  10W, H2 = 6.9%, H3=1%, H4=0.2%   I used it with cathode bias (used 50w resitor, backed by 10x200uF capacitor).  How it sounded - warm and punchy.   I had an amp with F-3 about ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #33: Underdamped bass on SETs by morricab on 2007-10-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Devid Berning amplifiers: the anti-trnsformers frenzy? in Audio Discussions  45 Replies 
"Indeed for classical work I often find a slightly under damped bass response to be emotionally evocative and of benefit to the illusion of the acoustic"Have you looked at the primary cause of this issue with most SET amps?  I can tell you that ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #284: Center-tap and options by floobydust on 2009-05-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
 I like having a center-tapped filament winding for flexibility. First, you can use a traditional approach on hum balance (what you have now) or use a slightly different approach. I use the center-tap as a fixed DC balance (cathode bias resistor solo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #42: Eccentric but Reliable? by Paul S on 2011-10-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A different breed of 6C33C amplifier. in Melquiades Amplifier  84 Replies 
As I've mentioned elsewhere before, over the years I've gotten about 25% clinkers, among all tubes, from all sources, including "specially selected, graded and matched" tubes.  Also, I have lived with the 6C33C enough to say it "drifts" in use, and i...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Lamm ml2 by hato on 2009-10-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm ml2 voltage 110v to 220-240v in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
Thank you JD for all the information. It was most helpfull. I will get the amps in the original crates, the instructions manual anf a few sets replacement tubes. Do you know the physical size of the fuses?. Seems like I have to buy some. I have alrea...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #66: Limits by Paul S on 2010-11-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: To drive the 6C33C... in Melquiades Amplifier  65 Replies 
Well 10k PS and 700V out ought to do it for headphones, all right (!), and the chokes ought to crank enough EMF to stand your hair on end at ten paces.Not sure why you need to fight DC, but...I already told of my own preference for bias adjustment op...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #95: I hope you will be able to moderate your needs to post. by Romy the Cat on 2008-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
Wojtek, in reality all “problems” that you picked from Paul’s comments are purely inventions of his mind. ML2 is truly “turn and forget” type of amp and it requires no dancing or prying around it. The 6C33C requires some attention when it is new but ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Are we comparing anything except our own prejudices? by rowuk on 2020-04-08 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Analog vs. Digital... without BS. in Didital Things  23 Replies 
How can we compare anything if we know from the very first note what media is being used? The noise floor and sonic artifacts are unique to each media, so are we talking about confirmation bias? Let us assume that we have a first generation analog ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #78: Bass Factory by Paul S on 2010-05-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Romy The Cat's new Listening Room in Audio Discussions  478 Replies 
The annoying thing is that a big, odd-shaped, high-ceilinged room with openings might take a LOT of power before the room gets sufficiently charged in the orchestra's "power band".  Just looking at the room, this might take 600 Wpc as soon as 60 Wpc,...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #476: Very much disagree on batteries. by Romy the Cat on 2010-03-15 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="clarkjohnsen"] A person who has good sounding power lines? Never met one such! I can't help but think, however, that turntables should employ batteries.[/quote] The PP2000 dose convert power lines into good sounding power lines, so what?...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #80: Drifting Away by Paul S on 2011-05-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
N-set, I am not the one to double check your mathematical solutions, that's for sure.  I wonder if in practice the curve values here are effectively tied to variables?  I like the Chimera idea, but it has no "locked curves" to contend with, and it us...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: Stability by Paul S on 2011-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
N-set, have another look at the Chimera "bias", and the sophistocated way the diodes effectively buffer the gain stages, also the way the caps are staged over the tiered ground planes.  Also check where the Ls are with respect to the signal.  Perhaps...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: The perfect corrector - II by Romy the Cat on 2008-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The last phonocorrector: “End of Life" Phonostage in Analog Playback  310 Replies 
The second stage switched to fixed bias ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: The 13E1 by cv on 2010-03-01 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: More power from Melquiades? More powerful tube? in Melquiades Amplifier  19 Replies 
Man would I love to visit the MIT fleamarket... only a few thou miles away alas.Well, I'm not advocating A2 in any way. The 13E1 will happily run at lower anode voltages but you won't get enough A1 power out, which is a shame cos you'll need a new po...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #41: The external shields on the gas tubes. by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Gas voltage reference 0A2 tubes. in Melquiades Amplifier  42 Replies 
This post is a derivation from the following post: http://www.romythecat.com/Forums/ShowPost.aspx?postID=11797#11797 What is interesting is that I have a few the same types of shields for small 7 pin gas tubes and I have tried tho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #196: Where to burn gain? how? and where to get beter stepped attenuators? by Romy the Cat on 2009-02-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps in Melquiades Amplifier  397 Replies 
  Ok, the Milq MF DSET is well laid out. I have ordered a few parts and it will be on it’s way. I’m still contemplating what kind 400V cap to put right before the DHT tube in B+. I have space and I might go do film cap but I am not sure. Still ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #153: The cycleing bias? by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="jessie.dazzle"]Since renewing all tubes in both ML2s, over the period of about 3-5 minutes, the V2 bias on one of the amps cylcles between .27 and .33VDC. Is this behavior indicitive of a defective 6C33C?[/quote] That is not good. Try to...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #8: Building the Melquiades: #3 by Romy the Cat on 2006-06-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Building Melquiades: Chronicle of full-range in Melquiades Amplifier  44 Replies 
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 ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Omitting the cap and DC Coupling Bass amp by cv on 2007-08-13 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The Melquiades bass channels: the coupling capacitor. in Melquiades Amplifier  11 Replies 
Hello,Here's an idea - uses a resistor in series with a current source on the negative supply to drop the voltage to the 6c33. Not sure how happy (sonically) the 6C33 will be with a 50k resistor on its grid. It would be huge problem at HF a...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #16: Of the several things I do not understand by Paul S on 2007-09-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: 6 Channel Version of Super Melquiades in Melquiades Amplifier  131 Replies 
Pretty clean, Romy (and one hellova tranny at Fundamentals)!Of course, I have questions:I thought you said Vishay metal foils in your earlier response about bias adjustment?If so does that mean steps, or...  how, exactly?When you specify "Full" ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #85: Active/Reactive by Paul S on 2011-05-23 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
N-set, I am sure you realize by now that I do not properly understand "electronics".  I see the "diodes" in the Chimera circuit as a sort of "active" bias that is also dynamic proof against blowback/ripple to and from the tank, at each of three "...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #24: Zero inspiration bias by N-set on 2011-03-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power. in Audio Discussions  106 Replies 
Some people bias 833 at 0V. Some in A1 but to get teh stated powerit must go into A2. Do you or anyone have normal plate curves for 833 instead of that multiampidiocy usually published? Say up to 200mA. Same for 304tl.Outpur tranny--this is the funct...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: What to do for now? by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Yamaha B-2 V-FET amplifier. in Audio Discussions  19 Replies 
Well, one way or another I will fix my B2 amp. I think while I have no bass amp it would be a good idea to try other amps for ULF: powerful tube amps or even class D amps.  I do not have inspiration to dry Class D amps and I have no powerful tube amp...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #98: I do not think that voltage drop is a problem by Romy the Cat on 2008-03-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Initial thoughts about new/old Lamm ML2s in Audio Discussions  215 Replies 
[quote user="Paul S"] I have stated several times that the ML2s are less sensitive to bad electricity than my phono stage, and this is true. However, this is not to say that the amps are immune to bad electricity. In fact, it is the effects of bad el...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #173: I would like to go V-FET… by Romy the Cat on 2009-07-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Macondo’s MiniMe or about Pilot Acoustic Systems in Audio Discussions  213 Replies 
Well, since I will not experiment with many of them I'm  kind of narrowing down the scope of the amps that I would like to get. In 70s-80s break there was a short period of time when Yamaha and Sony made top of the line amps around V-FET output t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: Ok, let have tube testing fun. by Romy the Cat 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 
Jim, I have sent you the tubes – it might be an interesting journey. I send you: 1) 6C33C that was working with both cathodes approximately a year. It is not dead year but it is deep into retirement age. Run it at 220V and 200-250mA full-tube,...
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