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My "Stupendous" PPP 6P1P build

Deamoncleaner,

If Bas could indulge the off-topic question, I was wondering if you actually tried your proposed searches and came up with something useful. I did not. It would help if you could give links to the good stuff you found. (I did see a couple of boxes with lids, but they were small, possibly Ok for small monoblocks).
 
Deamoncleaner,

If Bas could indulge the off-topic question, I was wondering if you actually tried your proposed searches and came up with something useful. I did not. It would help if you could give links to the good stuff you found. (I did see a couple of boxes with lids, but they were small, possibly Ok for small monoblocks).

Here is a nice size:

https://www.amazon.com/Utopia-Kitch...coding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=RT1QN34GW3B39VH0J2VD

Try thinking outside the box 😀
 
Been so long...I posted in the original Stupendous thread. Now also in 'my' thread.
 

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A very good question. Something I think of more and more. My three pushull amps are littering the house. Two in my bedroom next to bed. I can hardly get into bed. Then a pushpull under the tv in a cabinet. Currently I have SE 509 in my bedroom system that I use. One rh84 lent out to someone who wanted to listen to a se amp. And one RH84 that is surplus. Then the Zen clone currently in my main system. Other half done projects in my hobby room. And believe it or not I have no preamp at the moment. Using an autoformer avc. So the Salas 6v6 is going to go in my system.
The thing about selling is you don't get a decent price. And there are things I won't get rid off or sell. Especially transformers that are unobtainium like Magnequest or the Sony Tamradio or the One Electrons (first I bought). But I might sell something in the future....because things are getting out of hand.

So the plan is to still make the pushpull amps good enough (one day). Long story short...Up to now I have kept them all. (Also thinking of giving away to family that is interested. One cousin only so far.)

PS. In the beginning my amps weren't too pretty...so I cannabilize them to make new stuff.
 
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I have enough relatives to take care of my builds for a while yet.

In addition I have five stereo systems in the house so the solid state ones can still be supplanted with tube amps.

Selling isn't worth the effort in my opinion. At least not in the area I live in. If I lived in Atlanta, or any other really large city it would probably be easy to do and take less effort.

kodabmx: How much power do you get, what operating point?

My 6P1P-PP put out 8W per channel IIRC. I ran it very conservatively, but a guitar amp I built achieved almost 15W while running hot. I figured 10-12W PP would not be too hot so 20-24W for a PPP?
 
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