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Romy the Cat's
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Hi. First time posting. I had long admired an older friend's RX-5000. He left it to me when he passed last year (RIP, Bill) and I recently got possession and did a lot of cleanup on a table that had been sitting for a couple of decades. He has ow...
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My Dear friend Romy,Indeed it took me a very long time to decide upon regulate or not. I ended up with regulation option to save some chassis space and weight, otherwise I would need at least 10 kilos more and 30% bigger space that would make the who...
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I wonder what the difference is between class A and B insulation is. Never noticed that parameter before. The 10 amp choke (I like their word reactor) must have some very large guage wire, as the resistance is really low. Clearly, b...
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After consulting with a few peoples I decided to use the brutal force method: use a regular steel wall, but to make it the wall of the high thinness (~3/8”) and weld it to the chassis. The presumption is that if the wall will be rigid and not “trembl...
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Paul, 6E5P may strech very much, but maybe just enough to close the gap. In such a racing car there is a little margin, it's not a usual 10W+ design. Biased at -3.5V 6E5P will produce +40Vmax on the grid, driver driven to the limitThe grid will eat ...
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[quote user="steverino"] Romy said "When I had my magnetic and EMI probes running with open PP2000 cover then the probes showed me that I was in the middle of Chernobyl Black Forest. I think the PP3000 even more poisoning..."Now I begin to understan...
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[quote user="SOS "]First as stated before, when I 1st received the unit no hum issue it was after it was sent back twice that it came about. 2nd if I use my other conditioner, a Purist Audio Design all is dead quite. The humming out of the speakers s...
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Adrian, I'm not yet convinced the PP is to blame. Also PP Richard is helping a lot to understand the issue (thank you Richard!). Now this f@#$%@%$ 100Hz noise stepped on my male ego - want ot understand where it comes from.
I qu...
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Big header, small discussion...The well-designed hi-fi component will not require that a "ground" wire (if any) be connected, at all. In fact, the ground wire can actually introduce noise in some cases, for a number of reaso...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"]the hum people apparently pick their own ground loops that too masked in noise without PP2000.[/quote]It is not exactly correct. There is 60 Hz hum eliminated by lifting the ground to the amplifiers. The neutral is connec...
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Below are some images that show the locations of the various filter caps within the amplifier chassis.The big cap for the First Stages is located directly below the 6E5P tubes...The big filter cap for the Bass Channel is adjacent to the Bass OPT (pee...
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I just finished the GM70SE amplifier. It is built on the same size chassis as the 6C33C (with few extra holes) but 1/2 in higher to accommodate quite a few extra parts.
The GM70SE is built with quite interesting feature similar to 6C33CSE :- Double...
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I had to dismantle a friends chuffing PM6A drivers the other day (only to find that the foam spider had disintegrated after 5 years, nice work Lowther) What was interesting, possibly, was the coating that Lowther seem to be applying to the voice coil...
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This is what I try to stick to: Try to create closed magnetic (steel) loops around magnetics. Ideally acompany itwith closed electric (copper) loops. This I think Pieter has done that already for you, but,as Romy impicite suggests, double boxing will...
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Thank you for the comment on this amp, this is my first time of using the 6C33C tube, I decided to build this amp after reading about the Melquiades, this amp is just a quick experiment on the 6C33C sound, since I have...
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[quote user="KOTriode"] Thank you for the comment on this amp, this is my first time of using the 6C33C tube, I decided to build this amp after reading about the Melquiades, this amp is just a quick experiment on the 6C33C sound, since I have a s...
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I got some time on the PC to start to think about how to layout the DSET. I plan to build it a little like a skyscraper: multiple levels separated by component groups and functions. So mains transformers, AC socket and perhaps time delay rel...
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[quote user="Romy the Cat"] anthony wrote: Then
the AC-DC conversion on the first floor, filter caps and output transformers on
the third level with the amplifiers sitting proud on top. I don't want to
see any caps or transformers...just valves.P...
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Romy wrote:"...Since in my new house I will have no room height limitation I am consenting to replace my 250Hz tractrix horns with 200Hz exponential horns...""...I would like my Fundamental Channel to employ 170-180 Hz slow-opening horn and to use a ...
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The two stages 7788-7721 phonostge can go at near 70dB and it were what I was intended to put in that Chinese chassis. I would like 6-10db more. A transformer? A semiconductor gain stage? A third tube stage? I do not know…
Actually reticently, two s...
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Spend a good few hour moving the boxes, connecting the cables
and do other sort of things. Was looking for elegance and more symmetry. The
objective was to put midbass channel between the main horn islands and set the
horns, the midbass and LF in ...
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I would contend that most of the microphonics and feedback in valves is usually caused by the resonances and vibrations of whatever they are plugged into. Glass is very rigid which is only enforced by the shape into which it is mol...
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I was asked for more information on my power supply regulator, which allows the original 100V power line (Japan) to be plugged directly into a 120V line (US), while greatly smoothing the ripple going to the motor.
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[quote user="Alex Yakovlev"]Romy, would you mind elaborating on specifics of your power supply? My Bidat is going to John in a couple of weeks and I am finalizing my thoughts. Thank you.[/quote]
I do not have any “specifics of my power supply” as I ...
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It is already converted to the fixed bias on the second stage with 47K and 10 voltage divider from negative filament (positive filament is in ground) and I have the perfect 150V on the second plate. It is already fully operational with 8mV noise not ...
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Hi Jarek,Apologies for missing your post.To answer your questions:(1) Yes and no. I've bundled the preamp into its new chassis (that I made from scratch) and it does not sound as good as before. There is a grounding problem with the new installatio...
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I must say that I have always thought the Cardas "Golden Ratio" schtick was pretty lame. So it was with no small measure of trepidation that I sent off a rather outlandish sum of money for two Cardas Golden Whatever 4.7 uF caps for th...
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[quote user="Paul S"]If you can do it, try isolating both cases/chasses from your "ground plane(s)". Use one inclusive "ground plane" for both the PS and the gain/RIAA sections, and ground this "ground plane" to the house "neutral" wire. Do NOT conne...
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It's 60Hz hum, caused by both mechanical and magnetic field coupling to the output transformer. I used a toroidal transformer and thought it would not caused this problem but it did. When using an external power supply for both ...
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What you guys are missing is a grand scale of the concept. You are talking about voltages, implementation, electric chairs and the rest of irrelevant crap but I am talking about the pure inspiration from the concept. No one runs to solder anything. I...
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