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BTW, Jessie, this morning I opened a Super Melquiades and made some changes in plate current measurements. While I did it I took a shot of the Super Melq inside. The former image was made juts when I finished the amp. The current shot is actual stage...
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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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Somewhere within this thread (or perhaps somewhere else) I have mentioned that my own playback systems last times was dead-installed into the DpoLS approximately 5 years ago. I kind of did not make a whole a lot of attempts with DpoLS since I was doi...
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[quote user="skushino"]Romy, please elaborate on your experience using a 2nd order crossover. What do you mean "rules of the game change completely?" Why did you try the 2nd order? Are you concerned with damage to the driv...
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OK, got the Placette from the second round of "modification", it took 15 second to confirm that the HF problems that I sniffed out was not there anymore – so the absolute transparency is back to the business and this time the word “absolute” could be...
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OK, I have conceptualized what I need for the tweeter amp. It will be MilqEZ – the same Milq one with 6C19P at output. I will use the Super Melquiades power supplies but the HF channels will host own last caps of the filters and own bias of the both ...
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Hm, that is a good question. I honestly do not remember. The 6ch Super Melquiades has 7A fuse but I have no memory about the fuse I used in single channels amp. During the assembly I used the lamp fuse – that is given but in the final version I just ...
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Last night a friend of my visited me and we spend an evening listing Wagner. He played Wagner himself a lot and he begin to make comments about sound of different sections and instilments in my room. I stopped him as Macondo in the new is no wher...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] In the 2008 I have a few immediate goals:
1) Finalize the 6-chennals version of Super Melquiades and integrate it with Macondo
2) Finalize the “End of Life" Phonostage:
3) ...
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Since I got my stable and good quality electricity back I recalibrated my bass horn. Again, I set it up with very precisely and absolutely without any measurements, juts by ear, to sound exactly how I want it to sound. This is in a way my crown jewel...
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Sine my call for somebody builds for me a full range Melq was not answered:
http://www.goodsoundclub.com/TreeItem.aspx?postID=2492#2492
I decided to put it together myself. Now I understand that letting the first amp to go was a mistake....
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I do not know why people go into low-sensitive loudspeaker and they go crazy in order push the last drop out of the class A2 operation. From a different perspective the Macondo’s woofer towers with 97.5dB sensitivity are low low-sensitive loudspeaker...
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Believe me or not but since last spring when I undertook the single-amp conversion and went for the six-channel Super Melquiades my playback never sounded as I would like it to. It was better or worst but it was never how I meant. The last week the t...
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Hello, loudcloud,
The Milq’s meters are by Hoyt (link). You might look at
http://www.hoytmeter.com
and from theer your might customize it in any direction wish. They are not dirt-cheap but I fine them reasonable for what they do. Here is the pict...
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Well, it is getting interesting. I was able to make my Hillock TV-2 tester to test the 6C33C. I spend a few hours to filtering the plate voltage and replacing a couple resistors to 50W instead of the 5W. The plate coils in TV-2 is 100mA but it looks ...
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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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I put the Super Milq and the new one-stage Milq today and was playing them together in order to see which would be more interesting. It is imposable to “compare” as is the upper bass and lover mid channels as the Super Milq has all kind of line...
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[quote user="Antonio J."] The builder regards VR1 more like an "offset to 0" adjuster than a bias control for the 6E5P since its working range is quite narrow. He asked me to know from you if along the 6E5P's lifespan it needs further adjustment...
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[quote user="Paul
S"] Am I the only one who wonders about parking the amps on the woofers? [/quote]
From the point of view of a methodological purity indeed the location of a vacuum
tube amplifier atop of midbass section does not make any sense. B...
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[quote user="rdrysdale"]So how do you suppose the proper DPoLS can be located? With a system like Steve Schell and I are working with, everything weighs hundreds of pounds and to properly evaluate changes would take days, maybe even weeks f...
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Ok, the 6-channels super Melquiades is done, closed up and I made a few pictures of the beast. I have to admit that I do like how it amps turn out to be packaging-wise: the layout turned out to be very good for 3 channels as well and for 6-chennals. ...
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I was listening toady Rossini’s “Sonata per Archi” and suddenly a strange feeling stroke me: I become suddenly queries about “more power”. It was not that something directly encouraged me in the Sound that I am getting in here. I never heard th...
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Those damn Russkies always threw surprises. Using in Melq the Russian-made tubes, probably very few the most remarkable tubes they ever made, the life defiantly threw some hi-fi astonishments.
The people who follow my saga with Melq know that I do n...
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[quote user="Paul S"]and dm did say he's tried (and rejected?) several SETs already, in the context of Klipsch Horns.[/quote]No, I didn't say that at all. I said that the were aspects of the 6C33CB's presentation via the Almarro A318B SET, that ...
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[quote user="cv"]Funny, I was just thinking about battery powering of amps... I know you have identified that the problem is more with the sources, but it would be interesting and quite feasible with the Melquiades and other components... wouldn...
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Holly cow, who could even expect that it will be so! BSO opened today the summer season with Mahler second. Levine is at his, look to be permanent recovery, and Michael Tilson Thomas stood at the podium. Tanglewood Festival Chorus, soprano Layla Clai...
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Chris,
when I got those large 7Hz-1kHz transformers I soldered one of them in my regular Melquiades and listed what it did. Besides all necessary bass benefits I decided to see how plate current would behave if I have no limitations for core satura...
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Hi Roman et al!Allow me to introduce myself. I have followed with amusement Romy the Cat for many years. He is ascerbic and ultracritical, but he does know audio. We share many tastes, like the Koetsu Onyx Platinum foir instance, on...
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Well, I spent today a number of hours trying to advance my observations regarding abilities of the one-stage Melquiades. It was quite interesting. Thankfully the electivity today was way better during the second part of day. I loaded the 6E6P heavier...
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Yes, Jim, you put it very well. Still in case of the 6C33C it only possible to cool the glass and I made experiments blowing a strong flow to the glass and it did cool down the plates. The problem is that it is not a good idea to apply a strong flow ...
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