Hi all,
I have built some nice fairly specialist amps over the last few years and I have some designs which I am really happy with and will be keeping. However they are in the 6-20W range and I recently concluded that my main speakers are only using a tiny amount of that power. I am thinking I could probably get by with between 1-3W and be more than happy.
So I am searching for a really special design for a nice Spud amp.
I have worked with the ECL82 before and have found it to be a really nice sounding tube - so its an option.
Of all the designs out there the Mighty Midget by Peter Millet strikes me as in best conformity with my design philosophy. However all my amps are now direct coupled and I would like to keep to that practice. However compactrons are a bit of a drag since they have to come from America.
I have seen a few single stage PP designs which i like the concept of, but they are not really spuds since they don't use dual triodes or pentodes.
Single stage designs are appealing.
Maybe an experiment in DHT ?
If I do this - Iwould like it to have the potential to better the amps I already have so this is something of a no holds barred though experiment.
Any ideas.
Shoog
I have built some nice fairly specialist amps over the last few years and I have some designs which I am really happy with and will be keeping. However they are in the 6-20W range and I recently concluded that my main speakers are only using a tiny amount of that power. I am thinking I could probably get by with between 1-3W and be more than happy.
So I am searching for a really special design for a nice Spud amp.
I have worked with the ECL82 before and have found it to be a really nice sounding tube - so its an option.
Of all the designs out there the Mighty Midget by Peter Millet strikes me as in best conformity with my design philosophy. However all my amps are now direct coupled and I would like to keep to that practice. However compactrons are a bit of a drag since they have to come from America.
I have seen a few single stage PP designs which i like the concept of, but they are not really spuds since they don't use dual triodes or pentodes.
Single stage designs are appealing.
Maybe an experiment in DHT ?
If I do this - Iwould like it to have the potential to better the amps I already have so this is something of a no holds barred though experiment.
Any ideas.
Shoog