SET vs Push-Pull Tube Amps?
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By that logic, how could 3 feet* of high-end power cord compensate for a zillion miles** of grid and feet*** of 22 gauge hook up wire inside a hifi component?
Wait, what am I saying?!?
So, yeah, magic.
Or a small dwarf, living in one's stomach.
Since this is a multi-national, ecumenical kind of place.
* one-ish meter
** 1.62 zillion kilometers
*** 30 cms
You're welcome. 🧐
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P for parallel or P for pentode ?
Years ago I had a SE parallel 6l6 amp , I have no way to compare to what have now.
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Phase inverters don't split anything
I like good-sounding SE DHT amps on the right speakers, and the best sounding ones I've tried are SE 46. However, I consistently return to my PP amps because, to my ears, they sound even better. My primary PP amps have 6L6G outputs (WE 124 circuit) or 6L6GC (my circuit but designed with Lance Cochrane's help). I am pretty sure one reason why these PP amps sound as good as they do is the floating paraphase inverter. This is an old approach which does not have as low distortion measurements as a split-load inverter or Mullard long-tail pair inverter but it sounds better IMO. For lower efficiency speakers, I use Emotive Audio Vitas which run KT120 outputs very conservatively for about 50 watts.
Oh, so it seems that I must have told you about that 4-hour/20-mile backroads drive home from Ann Arbor. The autumn night when we had to take extreme care to not run over the millions of frogs that kept hopping out, onto, and then across the roads. Strangely enough, they were all headed south, we assumed for the winter. There was a strong wind blowing out of the north, but no connection between the frogs and that wind was made, at the time.
I have a similar 12 mile hitchhiking story from days of yore but it involved owls swooping down from the tops of telephone poles and branches falling in the road. Needless to say I was so glad to be home that I stared in a mirror for about an hour then watched the lights on the stereo until I was able to fall asleep.
Moral of the story for any teenagers in here: Give a bit of time for mushrooms to take effect after you gorge yourself on Thanksgiving dinner, and you should probably stop before three handfulls.
I remember 4 of us riding in a 240z and Triumph TR6 chasing each other around in the fog when we came upon two people hitch hiking...
We stopped and asked if they needed a ride... laugh said there's no room and took off... ofcourse aided by natural substances.
We stopped and asked if they needed a ride... laugh said there's no room and took off... ofcourse aided by natural substances.
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There’s the magic
The best tube amp I have ever heard was a Shindo Cortese, a 10-watt SEP.
Oh.
Have we talked about how darned linear power triodes are in the context of this thread?
Have we talked about how darned linear power triodes are in the context of this thread?
No, but DHTs do make great music.Oh.
Have we talked about how darned linear power triodes are in the context of this thread?
This.
Here's what the VAC website says:
"The triode vacuum tube in and of itself is the most linear amplifying device yet devised. It produces the least distortion and that distortion is predominately second order harmonics which is relatively musical in sound. By contrast pentodes produce greater distortion, and third harmonics tend to dominate. A transistor generally looks like a very bad pentode."
"The triode vacuum tube in and of itself is the most linear amplifying device yet devised. It produces the least distortion and that distortion is predominately second order harmonics which is relatively musical in sound. By contrast pentodes produce greater distortion, and third harmonics tend to dominate. A transistor generally looks like a very bad pentode."
