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Tubes are coming back, Germanium transistors on the other hand are likely to go extinct, (i still have a handful stash of AD162, 2N1308, OC16, 18, & 28).
share your thoughts:wink:
Please feel free to post pix of your tube projects here:grin:
first tube amp, 6AR5/12AV6 single ended
talk about nostalgia...
later moded & replace power tube with a 6F6G, OPT with a modern Z11 cores by AT Alpha Technologies
another single ended using 13FM7 triode
oldschool point to point...
Originally Posted by Audioguru
I made a mid-quality vacuum tube amplifier in 1961. Its output tubes became unmatched after only a few months and needed to be replaced to have low distortion again. It happened over and over.
wow, that was some 51 years ago, if you began building tube amps at...
hi thebadtall,
PIO or paper in oil are hard to find these days, i find those starting caps used in induction type electric motors are good alternative, yes they are huge & bulky but the performance is also huge:wink:
Hi,
i'm just a plain hobbyist in my 40's building my own tube amps, i'm a single ended fan hence class A, i used to build SS & gainclones, but to me tubes are really special, they are more natural sounding to my ears, no matter what others are against the output transformer limitations, perhaps...
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