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[Fuling]

PL36 (25E5) PP, triode wired with mains toroids as output transformers. The "special sauce" here is that the OPTs have four secondary windings whereof two are used for 12% CFB, cathode feedback.

 

[oemcar]

More components soldered...

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Like those single row plug in connectors. Assume mating PCB has matching male row?
Modular- can change configs easily and cleanly on the fly w/ diff PCB design- very cool

 

[Aleksandr83]

RL12P35 SE monoblocks

 

[MagicBus]

Very nice! May I ask what is the track we listen in the first video?

 

[Aleksandr83]

May I ask what is the track we listen in the first video?

Hello
The Heroic Weather-Conditions Of The Universe Part 7 After The Storm

https://disk.yandex.ru/d/rRCrxIapYZXmzw

 

[Wiliks]

Hey, here is my new integrated amp with ecc803s input, ecc82 driver stage and 6P3S outputs. Output transformers are of my own design and professionaly made on order. Frequency response of amp with capacity load stable square wave is 3Hz-24kHz/-3dB, low bw is about 15Hz /-0dB at full power. To make things safe everything is covered and built in case and so it is fan vented. I was able to make it only 13cm high even with vertical tube ortientation thanks to bottom PCB mounted Belton oktal sockets. Many things are changing in amp in different modes, f.e.:

Class AB: Ua=440V, Ia=20mA, very low fan speed, P=36W
Class A: Ua=330V, Ia=60mA, medium fan speed, P=25W
Headphones connected: speakers automatically disconnects and phones goes in "fake class A": Ua=350V, Ia=20mA, very low fan speed

Schematics of Amp, Switches, PSU




Short clip what it does:

some more build images...





and last one, also reason why I wanted to use beam tetrodes, to see electrons!!!

 

[ChrisM91]

Pete Millets Distortion Cancelling Push Pull (DCPP) “Engineers Amp”

Using bigger iron for more output than the original design. Still burning in and stabilizing but sounds very good so far!

 

[6A3sUMMER]

Stabilizing what?

Individual Output Tube currents?

Global Negative Feedback?

What?

 

[ChrisM91]

Stabilize output tube bias current. There is a definite burn in period for the tubes (and the components too for that matter).

 

[zintolo]

Still burning in and stabilizing but sounds very good so far!

Can I ask which speakers are those in the blurred background?

 

[Cindra]

Look like Gallo reference

 

[djn]

Had these GM70s for many years and was slowly collecting parts for an Amp with them, now the time has come to assemble everything
6N6P - 6P14P-EV with CCS Load - GM70.
I made a PCB for the driver stage, at first i wanted to use cathode bias but now decided on fixed bias instead so i made a little bias supply on breadboard. The heater supplies are 180W Dell laptop adapters delivering 19.5V, found those in the electronics scrap bin. The power transformer is custom wound by german company "ampdesign" and has windings for 250- and 650V, B+ for the GM70s will be around 800V, don't really feel comfortable going higher than that (and have no measurement equipment for >1kv). Bias and Heaters are switchable separately from B+ via the two switches on the front.
Planning on using Toroidy TTG-GM70SE as the OTs but that'll have to wait, can't afford them right now.

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So how does it sound? I’ve been working on one on and off for years. What can I expect?

 

[disso]

I ordered the output transformers from toroidy yesterday, they should be here in 2-3 Weeks. Thing is i'll probably be moving at that time so i may not be able to finish the amp and listen to it until in a month or two. Will report back with impressions on the sound (hopefully i don't forget lol).
I measured all the voltages and the driver stage last week and it all does what it should, driver stage gives me 180Vpp before clipping with 2Vpp in. So i should have sound after simply connecting the output transformers, fingers crossed.

 

[quadtech]

Hey, here is my new integrated amp with ecc803s input, ecc82 driver stage and 6P3S outputs.

Schematics of Amp, Switches, PSU

Very nicely done! One possible upgrade for the delay timer is use to mains cycles count based delay -

http://www.next.gr/circuits/Simple-B-delay-circuit-for-tube-power-amp-l38806.html

 

[dubadub]

Hello, here is my latest amplifier. It started life as a 6V6-UL amp based on the Lacewood 2.0 design from CascadeAudio.com. After a year or so of Happy Listening, I got the upgrade big and found the schematic for the Get*Set*Go DIY project amp to be compatible with most of my existing hardware. The power supply is unchanged save for the removal of the 350R dropping resistor. A pair of heater rectifier circuits was added and all-new components were inatalled. The low voltage supply in the Hammond 270FX PT has ample amps (heh) to power one of these circuits and the driver tube's filament as well, with elevated AC. A Hammond 166M6 provides power for the second heater rectifier circuit. A pair of 2.5K OPTs from Hashimoto was installed.

The result is stunning. I keep getting writer's block coming up with proper audiophile-level blather. So I'll just upload some pictures.

 

[quadtech]

Cool - reminds me of one of a point to point Get-Set-Go I made long ago, in a Dynaco ST70 chassis.

 

[dubadub]

very nice. what brand are those big blue coupling caps?

 

[quadtech]

Those were/are made by a company here in India - I think they were 0.22uf "MKP" film caps. I replaced them later with Panasonic stacked film caps which sounded better to me.

El-ci-Ar caps

The output transformers are Transcendars and the power transformer is an Antek 1T300 toroid.

My P2P GSG

 

[alex mm]

Tube amplifiers, built in the last, four years .

 

[Horneydude]

That's incredible!