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
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
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,
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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