• WARNING: Tube/Valve amplifiers use potentially LETHAL HIGH VOLTAGES.
    Building, troubleshooting and testing of these amplifiers should only be
    performed by someone who is thoroughly familiar with
    the safety precautions around high voltages.

First foray into SET, design for your comment

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I assume that's for me -- not sure why it would be particularly unstable. It is just a direct coupled SE amp, which is easy enough to build and stabilize, driving a 300B. And, 6W6's are a dime a dozen, so who cares if one runs away ...

With two cascaded CCS loaded stages, gain is not only very high and "unswamped", but parasitics will be all over it like a dirty shirt. A snubber in each anode will likely be needed.

The snubber can be a 100-470R in parallel with a small inductor, or a few ferrite beads in the plate lead.

I played with very similar circuits (matter of fact, my headphone amp is a CCS loaded parafeed) and we had RF all over the place in every situation :hot:

Cheers!
 
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