Red Army Power-amp

[Salas]

If Stalin and Lenin are scary a simple red star is enough. And pick a suitable name for the amp - VladLen or Iosip or UZIL will make people confused.

Check Golden Middle, but I guessprices for transport will be high. I got an offer for two X-formers to Sweden (500km away) - not that very cheap. And I think, but cannot say for sure, taht there even may be added som export tax. Check that all out.

One more thing; Russians are very good at making things (that work).

I would call an all out CCCP NOS built ''Leningrad Cowboy''.

 

[EC8010]

Paint it olive green...

How about a bit of perestroika by using British and American Cold War ex-military components as well? British Admiralty pattern oil-filled C-core magnetics and American Loktal valves spring to mind along with the obvious choices of Soviet 6C45, 6C33 and PTFE capacitors. Then you could have a picture of Lenin (I like that idea), Reagan and Thatcher. it would be quite heavy, so I suggest wheels. Maybe even tank tracks.

 

[wa2ise]

What will you use for output iron? I doubt that Russian tanks or bombers had hi-fi sound systems.

 

[sharpi31]

Soundbrigade provided a link for output transformers - I'll check it out...

At least I have some coupling caps ready to go... Russian teflon 4.7uF. Perhaps the voltage will be too low...

This amp will be huge ;-)