11-11-2014 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,400 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 1 Post ID: 21326 Reply to: 21326 Fantasies about 10Y fiogf49gjkf0d It is not that I will be experimenting with 10Y in Milq's F channel but I need to admit that I always loved 10Y and not only because I happened to have a good selection of them. It is a pain in ass tube with high voltage but with very promising sonic capacity. So, it is natural that when I read at PF review of Thomas Mayer 10Y I got homey. I do not know who Thomas Mayer 1 is, what he does and I do not read German. However, the idea that someone still do today a pure 10Y makes very happy…   http://www.hifistatement.net/tests/item/1298-thomas-mayer-10y  "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

11-11-2014 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree rowuk Germany Posts 461 Joined on 07-05-2012 Post #: 2 Post ID: 21327 Reply to: 21326 Thomas the amp builder fiogf49gjkf0d Thomas is a German with a blog in english. I am sure that you know who he is: http://vinylsavor.blogspot.de He is a guy with a soldering iron and an affinity for unusual tubes. I am not sure if uniqueness is more important than sonics. Looking at the site does not show me any real sonic development over the years, rather just pretty and unique tube stuff - also for the DIYourselfer. Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

11-11-2014 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree anthony Posts 371 Joined on 08-18-2014 Post #: 3 Post ID: 21328 Reply to: 21326 Article is in English fiogf49gjkf0d There is an English version of the review (for your interest)... http://www.hifistatement.net/tests/item/1353-thomas-mayer-10y Some very upmarket parts choices right there.  Another place that I have noticed Thomas Mayer is attached to Wolf Von Langa fieldcoils...(the valve towers in between the white giants)..  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leWRuUylFUw EDIT:  getting hyperlinks to work

11-11-2014 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Paul S San Diego, California, USA Posts 2,796 Joined on 10-12-2006 Post #: 4 Post ID: 21329 Reply to: 21328 Girl With Theremin on Brown Acid fiogf49gjkf0d They might have played anything to show off the system capabilities... Paul S

11-12-2014 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,400 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 5 Post ID: 21330 Reply to: 21328 Ah, is it a preamp?!! fiogf49gjkf0d Hm, I did not realize that that it was a preamp. I thought that it was a hybrid power amp. In preamp the Y10 probably might sit at lower voltage. I have no idea how can they talk about preamp and do not talk about what output impedance it has. The Y10 with OPT it would not be too low… To me it would be fun to have Y10 as power amp with some kind of interesting driver. "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche