Nice work joshvito. Care to provide the schematic? I'm curious about what the single 6L6 is there for, and what is driving the 6V6s.
You can send him a message on reddit diytubes (user ohaivoltage) or here, but I forgot his username over here. He will love it!
Interesting, thanks. I wondered if the 6L6 was used that way. And this has no driver circuit, so you must have a preamp that provides adequate signal? I'll try to have a read through the link you provided.
Edit: Or perhaps not if this is a preamp, though I've never thought a 6V6 with it's swing requirements would serve as a driver per se. I'll have to read that thread as I'd think you'd need quite a big signal coming into this amp to make it work well. But maybe there's something I don't know going on here.
Edit 2: OK, read it. While the 6V6 wants more swing to take full advantage (particularly as an output tube), this amp utilizes just standard 1-2v output of lots of sources. Pretty constrained on the plate curves. I've never done this so am curious how it sounds.
Anyway, the amp looks quite nice!
Carl
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I communicated with him via Reddit, and I have nothing but praise. He is a first class guy.
Thanks for the compliment. The preamp sounds great to my ears, although, I don't have a huge amount of varied listening experiences with tube gear. I am running a phone pre(Black Cube) into this preamp, and then out into a Marantz PM8005 (power amp section). It is plenty loud at about 1/3 ish volume and sounds as clean and clear as the preamp section of the Marantz. There is definitely something extra pleasing to the sound, especially strong vocals.
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