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DHT Headphone amp for HifiMan Edition XS

The left channel filament has higher resistance, than other.
These are old tubes, it's impossible to know how much was used. The factory status also unknown.

Due to the filament biasing, where the tube's bias is creating as a result of filament current flowing via filament bias resistor AND filament, it's cause higher negative bias, than in other channel.
The higher negative bias results another operating point, lower anode current at static anode voltage.

If you want almost equal operating point in both channel, must to balance bias voltage.
Decrease left channel filament current till both channel anode-cathode (in this case filament bias resistor upper point) voltage and anode current will be almost equal.
 
I read at Bartola blog about output impedance of his hybrid mu-follower:

"With an BSH111BK MOSFET at 25-30mA and a 470Ω Rs, the output impedance is reduced by a factor of 120. So if you have a 4P1L with 1K6Ω anode resistance, the output impedance of the gyrator stage is as low as 18Ω."

https://www.bartola.co.uk/valves/2018/04/28/hybrid-mu-follower-output-impedance/

Will be do it to get off the OPT for the headphones HifiMan Editions XS 18R?

 
Bela what about these specs of opt to use in place of Toroidy TTG-EL84SE?

PRI:

5.0kOhm-38Henry-105mAdc-250 Ohm-Leakage 6.5mH UL tap 37.5%

SEC: 4x0.95 Ohm da settare secondo lo schema per ottenere 0.95/3.8...4/8...9/15...16 Ohm
RDC singolo secondario: 0.475 Ohm medio ( 0.40/0.45/0.50/0.55 Ohm)
Rdc @1 Ohm: 0.117 Ohm
Rdc @4 Ohm: 0.480 Ohm
Rdc @8 ohm: 0.97 Ohm
Rdc @16 Ohm: 1.90 Ohm
Rapporto spire K 5.0k/8Ohm: 22.32
Capacità PRI/SEC + Max 2900pF

THD @20hz 5W 80mA 0.78%
THD @20hz 5W 80mA 0.23%
THD @1kHz 5W 80mA 0.012%
Avvolto in 9 sezioni
Doppio Nucleo a C HiB 0.27mm 98cm/q
BW @5W 80mA
-1dB: 22-40.000 Hz
-2dB: 15-62.000 Hz
-3dB: 12-73.000 Hz
Weight: 2.5kg