@Rex Runner sent me a nice RCA manual for free; I couldn't even convince him to let me pay shipping!
Nicely done, sir. You're A-Okay by me!
:thumbsup:
Nate
@byoungman1 sent me these crusty old transformers a while back, so I tied some wires to ‘em and plugged ‘em into the main system...
Yep, they’re a-okay! :)
Thanks Bryce!
@nolasally Josh and I cooked up a convoluted partial trade deal that was over a year in the making... It involved several heavy, fragile packages being shipped in both directions and a lot of careful coordination.
Josh was always responsive and he knows how to pack this stuff to survive -...
Sad news this morning when I learned that Don Garber, one of the great tube amp artists of our modern times, has passed. He died at home a few days ago.
Don was best known in our audiophile community for his part in the "SET amp renaissance" of the 90s, and his contributions to Sound Practices...
Old. Rare. Overbuilt...
Yes, yes and yes...
Mil-spec? Uh huh.
And perhaps the coolest thing... It's a two channel amp, but it predates stereo. Nope, not a stereo amp.
Please don't tell my wife that I put this thing on the dining table!
I'm a diehard fleawatt fan but there are times when even a triode junkie like me finds himself drawn inexplicably to a big bad push-pull monster. That's what happened today...
I stopped at an audio garage sale of sorts and walked away with this thing.
I'm forever grateful to Joseph Esmilla for his excellent blog (and predecessor website) - it's inspired many projects of mine over the years and I find myself referencing it over and over. If you don't know what I'm talking about, do yourself a favor and spend a couple hours poking around...
I'm working on a tube linestage with a separate, remote power supply and I'd like ideas for connectors between the two. I'm familiar with the Amphenol mil-spec stuff but it seems overkill here. My chasses are smaller aluminum enclosures and I'm shooting for a retro industrial aesthetic with it...
I had a few days off over Christmas, so I did a little cutting and soldering. No new ground covered here - I've been down this same little road several times before...
Here's what's shaping up.
I think I already know the answer to this question, but let's float it anyway.
I'm considering a preamplifier circuit along these lines (this is Joseph Esmilla's)
The Tango line out transformers he used are unobtanium, but I have these input transformers that I could just run...
For a couple of years, I have been using a passive preamplifier built with "Slagleformer" modules, which are Dave Slagle's excellent autoformers packaged in a remote-control friendly circuitboard by John Chapman of Bent Audio. They are absolutely wonderful modules, allowing volume and balance...
I figured out a couple years back that the thing I like most about this hobby is making stuff, specifically single ended tube amplifiers. It's good mental exercise for me, to research different circuits and topologies, theories and tube types, ideas and plans. If I progress beyond the research...
A while back, I picked up a Pilot SA-232 from a fellow AK member. I don't know exactly how many of these I have owned over the years, but this is probably the fifth or sixth of the bunch. It seems that I am meant to own a Pilot SA-232...
With that in mind, I am putting a little more into...
A few months ago when I visited Ron (AKa doucanoe), he sent me home with a pair of Altec 4722s that had been sitting on his shelf. These little green transformers are pretty sought after as passive devices for step up duty, so I was excited to hear what they could do for the Denon 103 cartridge...