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Guy do me a favour & try get hold of an e-mail address for Erik, he's moved back to sweden now...I can't get a circuit diagram for this amp...Originally Posted by pure sound
Some top notch PSU caps & sprinkling od Audionote caps wouldn't go a miss...Hardly anything inside this baby..
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Been Running this valve amp all day with Croft Pre amp..Bass responce is ripping my guts out to say the least....Problems..It's too much for me & the moaning wife...
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Interesting looking amp!
What make KT88's are you using? Best I've tied so far are probably Svetlana's, I'm using some Gold Lion reissues ATM but I don't think they're as good as the Svet's, I'll have to swap back sometime soon to check.
I have a spare set of Svet's too if you're interested in trying some?
Cheers,
Mike.
Here's mine in action: (crappy pic though)
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/4872/p2161339pl6.jpg
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yUM yUM That looks really tasty
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Mike,
Looks nice.
Do you find the valve damping rings make much difference?
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I think '6550' toobs might be in order.Or buy a pair of 'JR149's...I could do with a small pair of proper speeks anyway considering my surcumstances....What a farking life i got eh!.
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Yes... and no
The EAT Cool Dampers make a big difference on the small signal valves, as did Pearl valve coolers, but they looked gash.
The Golden Dragon dampers on the 88's don't seem to do much on those particular tubes, they are very solidly built with pretty thick glass and don't seem at all microphonic. They're much more effective on more, err, 'flimsy' stuff.
The biggest improvement of all was changing the feet for RDC2 cones and RDC cups, Nordost Pulsar Points worked well too. This could mean nothing more than I have a crap rack though!
Cheers,
Mike.
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Hmmmmm
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