[ESaudio]

[FullRangeMan]

Nice image, also great wood chassis.

[adrianc]

Mullard EL34 Big Base

[Captainhemo]

WOW, great stuff
Adrian,  if you  don't mind me asking,  how long has it taken you  to create such  a great   collection?
Do you  rent a warehouse   

-jay

[adrianc]

WOW, great stuff
Adrian,  if you  don't mind me asking,  how long has it taken you  to create such  a great   collection?
Do you  rent a warehouse   

-jay

Hi Jay,I think it was in the 1990s when I got my first tube gears and started to collect valves.
Regards
Adrian

[Bob in St. Louis]

Do you have a picture of the room they're stored in?

[adrianc]

Do you have a picture of the room they're stored in?

Hi Bob,most of them are in the loft and some in my listening room which easy for me to change valves when I get bore with them .
Regards
Adrian

[Bob in St. Louis]

Oh. I understand. 

I was anticipating a photo that looked something like that scene in "Raider of the Lost Ark":

[adrianc]

Oh. I understand. 

I was anticipating a photo that looked something like that scene in "Raider of the Lost Ark":

WOW,too exaggerate 

[Captainhemo]

 

Kind of what  I  had in mind as well  !!

-jay

[dminches]

I pictured a big version of

[adrianc]

I pictured a big version of

Hi David,are these your collections ? nice.
Adrian

[dminches]

Adrian, that is part of my friend's collection.  I love that picture so much I had a puzzle made of it.  Now that was fun to put together.

[Guy 13]

Adrian, that is part of my friend's collection.  I love that picture so much I had a puzzle made of it.  Now that was fun to put together.

Hi dminches and all Audio Circle members.
How about convincing your friend to become an Audio Circle member
and share with us his love for tubes?

Guy 13

[Captainhemo]

I pictured a big version of

Awesome 

[slbender]

Gee... Big tubes, huge tubes, huge-er tubes! Piles and Rooms of tubes, its like ... porn.  I like small tubes, so sue me!

My First SET Amp was similar, but less complex using a 12AX7 driving paralleled 10BQ5's, it was Six Watts per channel, and set in the same size form-factor, but it weighed in at about 36 lbs (yeah, the avatar on the left from about 12 years ago).

Pictured - My 2nd SET Amp.

First, I tossed out F. Langford Smith (1953) 4th Edition - I decided: Sorry, that's just not the way to design a SET Amp to drive a complex Speaker Load. My Totally Unique All 5687 circuit. It can also use 7044, 7119, E182CC, or a bunch of 6900's if I can ever afford them, etc. Built from a naked steel chassis about six, seven, maybe eight years ago.

Six Watts per channel; 300 Volts B+; Built-in: Power Conditioning; 1:1 Isolation Transformer; Switching Power Supply; Two Separate High Voltage Capacitor Banks (one for each Channel under all those bias controls); Defined Startup Sequence - like in a Missile Silo (but no turning keys simultaneously); Delayed Plate Voltage via - Timers and Relays. 12 Watts / 2 channels / 12 lbs. (without the carry-around case - not seen). Bass straight down to hell; Purrfect Midrange; the sweetest Treble. Sounds Better than Sex.

Anyone have an ONGAKO they would care to compare?


-Steven L. Bender

[Guy 13]

Gee... Big tubes, huge tubes, huge-er tubes! Piles and Rooms of tubes, its like ... porn.  I like small tubes, so sue me!

My First SET Amp was similar, but less complex using a 12AX7 driving paralleled 10BQ5's, it was Six Watts per channel, and set in the same size form-factor, but it weighed in at about 36 lbs (yeah, the avatar on the left from about 12 years ago).

Pictured - My 2nd SET Amp.

First, I tossed out F. Langford Smith (1953) 4th Edition - I decided: Sorry, that's just not the way to design a SET Amp to drive a complex Speaker Load. My Totally Unique All 5687 circuit. It can also use 7044, 7119, E182CC, or a bunch of 6900's if I can ever afford them, etc. Built from a naked steel chassis about six, seven, maybe eight years ago.

Six Watts per channel; 300 Volts B+; Built-in: Power Conditioning; 1:1 Isolation Transformer; Switching Power Supply; Two Separate High Voltage Capacitor Banks (one for each Channel under all those bias controls); Defined Startup Sequence - like in a Missile Silo (but no turning keys simultaneously); Delayed Plate Voltage via - Timers and Relays. 12 Watts / 2 channels / 12 lbs. (without the carry-around case - not seen). Bass straight down to hell; Purrfect Midrange; the sweetest Treble. Sounds Better than Sex.

Anyone have an ONGAKO they would care to compare?


-Steven L. Bender

Hi slbender and all Audio Circle members.
Your second amplifier (The big picture) is really nice and compact.
I did not know that an amplifier could sound better than sex,
I thought sex was the sound of heaven and nothing could sound better.
(According to my experience with my wife, that is...  )

Guy 13

[Bob in St. Louis]

"TMI" 

[Guy 13]

"TMI" 

Hi Bob and all Audio Circle members.
Excuse my ignorance, what does TMI means?

Guy 13

[jupiterboy]

Too much information—often invoked when sexual details are revealed.