I go to the opposite extreme. The amp should be audibly and visually as invisible as possible. No colouration, low distortion, deliberately unimpressive, so all I hear is the music and all I see is a plain black box (Hammond). I can just see the glowing EL34s inside, but it is at the bottom of the rack so definitely not on display. The only important thing is the small LED which when green shows all is well, but red would mean the bias supply has failed.
Looks good. Only native English speakers use the word plywood instead of multiplex.
I know because I made the same mistake in an email to someone.
Thanks for clearing that up. I was baffled.
To the north american variety of english speakers, "multiplex" has a different meaning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplex_(movie_theater))
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Some beautiful examples.
My design philosophy has been to accentuate the tubes, particularly when turned on. To do that I anodized my chassis black. Accents include the dark blue transformers and polished aluminum knobs and feet.
I tried to keep those accents subtle.
Nothing exotic and not a show winner for artistic design, but works for me.
My design philosophy has been to accentuate the tubes, particularly when turned on. To do that I anodized my chassis black. Accents include the dark blue transformers and polished aluminum knobs and feet.
I tried to keep those accents subtle.
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Nothing exotic and not a show winner for artistic design, but works for me.
I try to do everything functional, like mirror behind the toobs to reflect heat, perforated chassis for convection and damping of resonances, sound absorbing covering of side panels, etc... When it is ergonomic it looks aesthetically. When something does not work like a spoiler it adds something odd, alien. One guy wrote me, "I like your amps. They look like military Jeep, nothing odd".
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I was considering adding a brass mirror behind the tubes, too. Looks very nice.
Looks good. Only native English speakers use the word plywood instead of multiplex.
I know because I made the same mistake in an email to someone.
Yup, you're right! Plywood it is. Birch actually.
Kenneth
Also, Native American Speaking people call Aluminium Aluminum. And even spellchecker wants Aluminum.
That's a little different. North America actually spells it without the extra I.
There are so many of those. The Queens English has 3 letters more than the American version in the following:
"I endeavour to change the colour of my neighbour's house."
Oops, OT.
That's a little different. North America actually spells it without the extra I.
There are so many of those. The Queens English has 3 letters more than the American version in the following:
"I endeavour to change the colour of my neighbour's house."
Oops, OT.
And to make it even more confusing "theatre" and "colour" are accepted and common usage (on signs, and in the press) in this neck of the woods.
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Very nice thread!
went to great length with this one, to my & wife preference of course, always loved designing and making tube amp chassis
went to great length with this one, to my & wife preference of course
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I like rack mountable gear such as this:
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