A friend has just inherited a pair of Wharfedale Dalesman speakers (rather, rescued them from the skip) and is liking the sound. I helped him replace the rather useless sockets for cheap but functional speaker posts, checked things out, tightened bolts etc. Quite interesting listening to them on my PX25 amp, rather different to my Lowthers. Nevertheless it's fuelling his slide down the long slippery slope, I mean it's fuelling his interest in the hobby.
He's currently driving them with a 50W Kenwood tranny amp. The speaker posts are those plastic things, the threads don't grip cable. I wondered about helping him to replace them but the connectors are tightly bound to a PCB and I try not to mess with them unless I have to.
He's already talking about building a low cost valve amp and I wondered if anyone could recommend a suitable low cost design. I don't know the sensitivity of those speakers nor what design would suit them.
I've built a couple of amps and designed my phono stage based on a Broskie circuit but I'm no expert. Is a low-cost design just one using cheap components (or whatever is to hand) ?
He's currently driving them with a 50W Kenwood tranny amp. The speaker posts are those plastic things, the threads don't grip cable. I wondered about helping him to replace them but the connectors are tightly bound to a PCB and I try not to mess with them unless I have to.
He's already talking about building a low cost valve amp and I wondered if anyone could recommend a suitable low cost design. I don't know the sensitivity of those speakers nor what design would suit them.
I've built a couple of amps and designed my phono stage based on a Broskie circuit but I'm no expert. Is a low-cost design just one using cheap components (or whatever is to hand) ?
