| Jax |
Just to introduce myself...
I live in Sweden and is an old fart by now. I have used soldering irons since I was 12 and that's 36 years ago.
Most things I have built have tubes, be it audio or radio. Also restoring old radios and amplifiers whenever I find it.
I prefer the tubes but can listen to sandy things if they sound good.
Currently I have a homebrewed preamp with tubes driving a pair of restored Quad II (ubfortunately without the KT66's but raather 6L6GC's instead), a modified cheap Teac CD drive and a pair of homebrewed speakers I built 13 years ago and still are up to par.
I also have two other power amps, one with EL84's built from a schematics I found and one with EL34's I designed from scratch myself.
Right now I'm building up a home theater system where I will stick to sand state, it would be too expensive to tube it :)
The very first amp I built was with a pair of single ended EL90's, sometime in the late 60's. It sounded terrible :) |
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| dhaen |
Hi Jax,
Welcome to the forum... from another old fart. We have all ages here ;)
Glad you prefer valves, so do I....must be the age...
We have at least one diyAudio member who's built a 5 channel valve amp (Bas Horneman).
The KT90 was not popular in the UK (except I think in imported Grundig tape recorders), so I have no experience of it.
Do call over to the Tubes forum. There are some interesting people there, and I'm sure you have a lot to contribute.
Cheers, |
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| planet10 |
Welcome... i guess that makes me an old fart too :)
dave |
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| slowmotion |
And me, too
actually, the smell in here is starting to get unbearable ;)
Hi Jax, nice to hear that you like valves,
I'll see you in the Tubes forum
cheers, :drink: |
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| bequerel |
| I have an Edison 12W (kit), and it hums just like your clone. It still sounds awesome by the way. I use it every day. If you ever find a fix for the hum, please post it here. |
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