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1st Hagerman kit was the Bugle with a fancy case	Next I built a Cornet with switching but it hummmmmed badly	I went all out on the next Cornet to eliminate hum	Also incorporated Cinemag step-up transformers inside as both my cartridhes were low output
Had a mishap with a rectifier tube and blew up that Cornet!	While w/o a Cornet for quite awhile I built a Piccolo...	Also put the Cinemags in their own box	I was all set to make another chassis for a new Cornet...
...with shiny aluminum top plates...	...but in the end, I opted for the Lansing cases, and glad I did, because....	...I also built a Clarinet and positioning the controls is a whole lot easier! I also discovered that going exactly by the Hagerman book yields dead-silent operation at all volume levels.	My first non-kit build: this direct-coupled, single-ended, parafeed 45 main amplifier
The 'Simple 45' gave me a chance to do a little woodworking with Padauk	'The Simple 45' isn't all that simple under the hood and presented some challenges my pal Steve Brown got me through. Look at all that nice Magnequest iron!	I decided I wanted more than the 45 tubes 1.8 watts, so, on Steve's advice, I got interested in the work of George Anderson at Tubelab and built his Simple SE. He sells you a board and parts list, has great support on his site and at Diyaudio.com and you wind up with an EL-34/6550/KT-XX single-ended killer amp	Simple SE under the hood. Choke loaded power supply with 60 uFs of Aerovox motor run oil caps
An Aikido pre-amp with the boards Broskie sells is awaiting a re-build right now. On first completion it looked like this...	...and this and sounded fabulous except for a barely audible hum in the left channel only, that, 1 year later, still eludes me. The recently completed Clarinet is dead silent and wonderfully neutral but the Aikido has that CAT SL-1, single-ended ZEN