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The Vinyl Adventure
24-04-2010, 17:26
After my dog strayed through to the neigbours garden I got chatting
to him over the fence .. He happend to mention that he used to be an electronics engineer..
He said he uses to make his own amps for him and mates using gec px25 valves as they, in his words, "suffered from little distortion otther than thrid order"... He then went on to complain that he had sold his last matched pair a "few years back" for £60 and realised more recently he should have kept them along with the "partridge audio transformers" he used to use that now fetch "three figure numbers of your saying within reason" ...
If only I'd moved in a "few years back" eh
still he said he might be interested in making me a little amp at some point ... Happy days

Ali Tait
24-04-2010, 19:47
Shame he didn't have any going for a song! Sounds like a good guy to know.

The Vinyl Adventure
24-04-2010, 19:53
Yeah, unfortunatly he said he listens to music on a panasonce gheto blaster these days.. I might drag him round here, see if I can reignite his hifi enthusiasm!

Jonboy
24-04-2010, 20:14
I would invite him for Sunday Lunch, people like these are a treasure to be known and a wealth of information and as you say re-ignite his hifi passion which could lead to a nice friendship

Haselsh1
25-04-2010, 14:36
Careful... If you re-ignite his passion for Hi-Fi he may decide to build the amp for himself. Don't impress him too much.

The Vinyl Adventure
25-04-2010, 14:39
ha, yeah, good point...

i was actually thinking i might see if i can find a really old tatty valve amp on ebay and see if he could get it working again... that could be interesting.. and no risk of him keeping it ... i know where he lives :)

Haselsh1
25-04-2010, 14:46
Or, buy a really cheap n nasty Chinese piece of sh=t and get him to turn it into something that actually works on UK mains. Now I'd love a Chinese valve amp that would actually work in the UK (come to think of it, I had one. A single ended 300B). Maybe I'll just stick with the Croft but I do long for a quad of PP 300B's and their lovely blue glow.

Jonboy
25-04-2010, 15:07
Or, buy a really cheap n nasty Chinese piece of sh=t and get him to turn it into something that actually works on UK mains.

Just buy a variac and you can run on any voltage for any amp, this also means that the valve bias is correct for the voltage as well

Ali Tait
25-04-2010, 15:09
Yep,or make a bucking transformer.

Ammonite Audio
27-04-2010, 06:22
Yep,or make a bucking transformer.

Pardon?:eek:

Ali Tait
27-04-2010, 12:44
:)