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[tim614]

Edie,
"My tube amp was superior from a technical standpoint"
I am an amature, but what make your amp superior?

 

[N4BBQ]

Here she is : SE 6146B each driven by a 6C4. Speakers are Fostex FE-166en in a BiB. It gets about four hours a day and on the weekends is on probably ten hours each day. And no, that is not a pot plant behind the TV.
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[jrenkin]

Here she is : SE 6146B each driven by a 6C4. Speakers are Fostex FE-166en in a BiB. It gets about four hours a day and on the weekends is on probably ten hours each day. And no, that is not a pot plant behind the TV.
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Hey, I am thinking of puting some 166en into a BiB too. How do you like them and any extra considerations?

 

[tim614]

Very nice!
10hr that's a work horse.

 

[oldschooltube]

Of course that's not a pot plant behind the TV. You would put a pot plant in front of the speaker while playing Bob Marley. Duh!

 

[N4BBQ]

Hey, I am thinking of puting some 166en into a BiB too. How do you like them and any extra considerations?

We love to listen to them (they fit our style of music especially good) and I don't know of anything to tell you other than just build them to the specs based on the speaker. There's a fellow here "planet10" that might offer some advice. I seem to think he may have experimented some with the 166en.

 

[santa]

My 813 monoblocks

 

[jackinnj]

My everyday amp is a bunch of F5's driving SEAS Thors, biamped of course. I also have a Linn LK-100 + Linn Majik which drive a pair of Kelidh's in the little room (again biamped). I prefer the F5's

 

[ovpopov65]

Nice work! I recently built two of these amps, one for me and one for a friend.

very cool!

My 813 monoblocks

Solid!

 

[N4BBQ]

Love the 813s!

 

[Zekk]

Gorgeously built!
What is those two driver tubes in front?
Care to share your operating parameters?

I've been contemplating to build a low voltage version.

Thanks.

 

[Cassiel]

Love the 813s!

Me too. Gorgeous tube.

 

[Cassiel]

The F5 is a very fine amp but this is the tubes forum. No trespassing.

 

[fpitas]

The F5 is a very fine amp but this is the tubes forum. No trespassing.

How about a J2? It has an SRPP output stage, that's kind of like a tube amp

 

[FrançoisL.]

My everyday amp is GM-70 SET.
Its little name is КАТЮШA

Here it(she) is:

And a picture in its shrine:

 

[SemperFi]

6AS7 in PSE, 5687 VAS. 6922 Preamp. About 6-7watts. Had this as my workhorse fer years. In the prosess of biamping and will use this from 200Hz ->

 

[santa]

The tube lineup is 6SL7 - 6SN7 (Aikido configuration) - 813.
Currently in UL mode but I plan to switch to Triode this weekend.
About 800 VDC plate on the 813 @100 mA.
The amp has big sound and plenty of drive.

Thanks for the compliments!

 

[danFrank]

My everyday amp is GM-70 SET.
Its little name is КАТЮШA

I really like the metal work of her chassis. Especially how the tubes are mounted on a subchassis. Nicely done.
Daniel

 

[rongon]

As an experiment, I built an 11w per channel, push-pull 6L6GC-triode amp with a two-stage push-pull front end of 12AT7 > 6GU7.

It's built into a Dynaco ST70 chassis I've had for something like 25 years.

Much to my surprise, it sounds really pretty darn good! Eli Duttman is right that the 12AT7 sounds really good as an LTP.

Someday I'd like to make a better version in a bigger chassis, with better power supplies, maybe regulated. But for now, this thing gets used every day and keeps on sounding nice.

 

[Shoog]

Currently listening to my own design DC7 Mk III amp based around the 12L8GT dual pentode and PL84's as outputs. Before that I was listening to the DC7 Mk II for about two years (and before that the MK I which was quite a different design).

Working on a E55L spud for my next project.

Shoog