I am engaged in the restoration of "Electronics 004", the Russian clone of the Revox A-700. Wonderful mechanics, and not very successful sound circuitry. I am looking for a circuit on the lamps of a playback amplifier, recording amplifier for playback at a speed of 15 ips, 2 tracks, with correction of NAB and CCIR. There is a set of heads from Revox A-77.
I think to make a separate unit, so there are no restrictions on the lamps and dimensions. In the playback amplifier, I think to use a pentode at the input. Type EF86, 6AU6 .. for example, the output is either a pentode in the triode mode of type EL84, or a triode, for example 6N6P. But I don’t have an understanding of the recording amplifier yet.
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I have a book at father's book called "Grabadores de cinta" (Tape recorders) from a well known engineer here in Argentina, Julio Rueda. I can scan or photograph some pages of the book for you, but the text is in Spanish. Although the formulaes are understandables. But, for legal issues I will not post them here. Send me an email to lw1dseATgmailDOTcom or lw1dseATyahooDOT com, and the next week I possibly are sending this stuff. Unfortunatelly the book isn't available in the net.
> Cloning the Revox G36 circuit is not an option?
Looks good. As we should expect, not simple.
http://sportsbil.com/other/Revox_g36 service manual.pdf
Looks good. As we should expect, not simple.
http://sportsbil.com/other/Revox_g36 service manual.pdf
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Hello,
that´s way to do it.
However, to me the playback amplifier of the G36 doesn´t sound very good. But what do you expect from three ECC83 in row 😉
If cloning is the way how about the C37 circuit?
Best regards,
Martin
that´s way to do it.
However, to me the playback amplifier of the G36 doesn´t sound very good. But what do you expect from three ECC83 in row 😉
If cloning is the way how about the C37 circuit?
Best regards,
Martin
I found this, an old scanned article. here you have an example:
http://www.tubebooks.org/file_downloads/RCA_HiFi.pdf
But in the week I send you what I promised.
http://www.tubebooks.org/file_downloads/RCA_HiFi.pdf
But in the week I send you what I promised.
Thank you very much)
I absolutely agree with you.
The playback amplifier for the tape recorder is essentially the same RIAA corrector. Accordingly, with the recalculated correction. The next question is matching the Revox A-77 playback head with a playback amplifier.
I do not have enough knowledge and information to do this myself. Electronics is a pleasant hobby for me.
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Hello,
I built my own playback amplifier in exact the same way by using a good RIAA stage and changing the time constants. Just changed the triode input stage to EF86 pentode.
Using also an A77 playback head in my G36 I´m getting exactly the frequency response I wanted.
The A77 head does the same as the G36 head. Just 6dB less output voltage.
Best regards,
Martin
I built my own playback amplifier in exact the same way by using a good RIAA stage and changing the time constants. Just changed the triode input stage to EF86 pentode.
Using also an A77 playback head in my G36 I´m getting exactly the frequency response I wanted.
The A77 head does the same as the G36 head. Just 6dB less output voltage.
Best regards,
Martin