wow, an Intro section !

[halojoy]

Originally posted by Circlotron

Well.... part of the reason you build an amp is besides just listening to it, to see something you made with your own hands operating just nice and dandy.
And a tube amp wipes the floor with a SS amp in this regard.

Imagine the voices of angels wafting out of the speakers like a soft warm breeze, while you are sitting in the dark staring into the power tubes and looking at the inside of the anode and seeing that soft blue glow, while you imagine those invisible electrons crossing the space you can actually see, the density of them being modulated at an audio rate and actually turning into music. Ahhhh.. smell the warm transformer varnish. Savour the aesthetic ecstasy and symmetry of that transformer coupled push pull output stage. Wood, brass, copper, iron, porcelain, mica, bakelite... Oh, be still my beating heart...

I wax poetic.

for the joy of own creativity and for poetic reasons

who can argue with that?
but that is the trouble with tubes:

you ca not use them for HiFi and Good figures = hard plain facts
you have to get into feelings and and magic and
a mumbo jumbo land of snakes and impressions
to the right and to the left

A true ability in self suggestiveness and mind persuasiveness
will surely help

/halo - still somewhat more scientific
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ECL86 - of course I have had my mind to build "a little power amp",
to use planet10's words, with that tube

Nice and cheap, both triode and output tube in one and same package.
Just for to satisfy my own lust in creative work
and for to see that cosy GLOW of the TUBE

Quite tempting, I must say!

[Elkaid]

There you go !
Schematic for the "famous", "strange", "odd" and "useless" ECL86 preamp

ECL86 Preamp thread

At the bottom, you can see my prototype. I'm not very experienced but it seems to be quite powerful for a preamp !

[JoeBob]

Nice to see another quebecer on this forum. As for halo, I couldn't dissagree more, tubes can sound outstanding, not better then SS, but different. I use a mix of the two throughout my system.

And I can bet on you ending up as "odd" as the rest of us...

As for if you want to try your own with a gainclone I'd reccomend the inverted design.

Hope you have a good time on these forums.

[EC8010]

Originally posted by Circlotron
Imagine the voices of angels wafting out of the speakers like a soft warm breeze, while you are sitting in the dark staring into the power tubes and looking at the inside of the anode and seeing that soft blue glow, while you imagine those invisible electrons crossing the space you can actually see, the density of them being modulated at an audio rate and actually turning into music. Ahhhh.. smell the warm transformer varnish. Savour the aesthetic ecstasy and symmetry of that transformer coupled push pull output stage. Wood, brass, copper, iron, porcelain, mica, bakelite... Oh, be still my beating heart...

Crikey, Circlotron, what substances have you been ingesting?

For me, it's the glow. Turn down the lights and up surface the primitive instincts of feeling warm and safe with a glowing fire to look at.

Fortunately, Emmanuel, there are saner people on the Tube forum (it's just that they haven't posted recently).

[Elkaid]

Fortunately, Emmanuel, there are saner people on the Tube forum (it's just that they haven't posted recently).

hehhe thanks ! I was wondering....

For me, it's the glow. Turn down the lights and up surface the primitive instincts of feeling warm and safe with a glowing fire to look at.

That's the main reason why I tried my hands on the "useless" ECL86 preamplifier. I also wanted to hear how tubes sounded like.

Have a nice day !

[slowmotion]

Hi Elkaid,

Nice to have you here

[slowmotion]

>>you can not use them for HiFi and Good figures = hard plain facts
you have to get into feelings and and magic and
a mumbo jumbo land of snakes and impressions
to the right and to the left
A true ability in self suggestiveness and mind persuasiveness
will surely help
/halo - still somewhat more scientific <<

Halo should maybe listen to more beautiful valves instead of transistors : :