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Nope, definitely not recommending using it as an audio amp, but can recommend using it as a bass amp!
I was talking about building a valve amp for audio purposes and explained my only experience with valves is owning the aforementioned TE head. Turns out it's probably best I stay well clear of building one.
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Turns out it's probably best I stay well clear of building one.
Work your way up to them if you get the bug. There was a suggestion earlier about Gainclone and Chip amps, a good choice there too, great starter projects and the results often sound very good. Cheap too compared to valve amps, transformers can be very expensive. DIY Hifi Valve amps are good fun to build and listen to but you end up with gigantic 'structures' and things can get out of hand quickly.... I speak from experience :-)
Its a 3 stage per channel stereo amp (the PSU's take up even more real estate) comprising of a choke loaded 76 cap coupled to a fixed bias 2A3 Interstage coupled to an 811A run in A2.
FatManOnAFixie
^^^@prole I'm about to order that Yamaha RN-500. Let me know how you like it?
I may have misread but are people actually recommending using old valve bass heads as audio amps?