What makes is stereo?

[planet10]

The best -- thorough, easy to umderstand, with practical examples -- reference is Morgan Jone's Valve Amplifiers

You can also find copies of Raditron Design Handbook 4 on-line in a couple places. There are lots of on-line references. At least 1 thread on that subject.

dave

 

[Soonerorlater]

For a quick browse on line I've found The valve wizard site very useful. Don't be put off by the guitar reference.


How to design valve guitar amplifiers

 

[DF96]

Sorry, your initial questions about stereo sent me off down the wrong path - I assumed you were a complete newbie who wanted to make a trendy piece of audio furniture.

I agree that Morgan Jones book and the valve wizard website are good places to start. You have two options: learn a lot and design something yourself, or find an existing design or kit. Don't assume that because a design is popular that it is necessarily good.

 

[TheGimp]

Freestream, Check out this sticky thread "On Line Tube Learning for newbies...." on the first page.

There is a lot of good introductory information and links in it.

 

[Arnulf]

The purpose of the amp should be to play music and to have stereo sound (not mono). Now then iam going to start with building a pre amp iam going to build it for a turntable. Does that sound like a better plan? like this design http://phonoclone.com/images/p6dj8_cir.gif ? or do you know any better schematic for a pre amp stereo amplifier for turntables?

Play music into what kind of speakers (efficiency) and up to what kind of maximum (peak) level ?

And no, I'm afraid building a decent amplifier is relatively simple compared to building a decent phono preamplifier as much more care must be taken not to introduce noise with phono stuff; power amplifiers are more forgiving in this regard.