Thanks...lol.Unix
Thanks...lol.Unix
Heck, no!You want to make a SET amp out of that. Don't you?
You know what they say:The danger of electrocution has zero to do with the merits of tubes vs solid state semi in audio designs, though.
Anyone that doesn't respect their interaction with significant levels of electricity is playing with dangerous fire. And capacitance can kill very easily. I did my MSEE here: https://www.epe.ed.tum.de/en/hsa/equipment/professorship-hsa/
Mistakes were known to be very easily deadly, and the safety rules were top level. I just wrote software honestly. But very impressive stuff and still one of the top facilities for high voltage research on the planet. Only accident I ever heard about was because somehow a rat/rodent was in the facility and during a test it got turned inside out as it exploded. Facility was closed for a month to clean out any possible unpredictability.
PS: As always, I emphasize my degree was NOT in audio. I do not work in the audio field.
Carol Burnett rocks. LoL. I watched it every time it was on TV for some years wayy back. She's great!Absolutely correct ..... most assuredly not "Eunice".
Jim
and certainly not Eunuchs.Absolutely correct ..... most assuredly not "Eunice".
Jim
Not the correct spelling, but it is the direct result in many cases.I'm hoping the correct spelling isn't eunuchs...
Dang! Sorry @BDWoody -- I missed seeing your post 'til now! My apologies for being even a notch more redundant than usual!I'm hoping the correct spelling isn't eunuchs...
I have a musical fidelity nuvista preamp feeding a rotel RB1080 power amp driving some top end Dali speakers. It is a sublime combinationNot to mention the lack, into the 1960s, of reliable and affordable transistors for high frequency use. This resulted in some amusing products, such as the space charge tubes designed to run directly from low voltage (i.e., automobile) DC power supplies -- plates and all! Also, the early "solid state" FM tuners, with tubes in the front end (typically only listed in very fine print in the ad copy).
In the latter case, the tubes used were often RCA's last-gasp NuVistors. And you know... I am kind of surprised that no one's mentioned the amphibian* of the active electronic components family tree -- the NuVistor
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I am sure all y'all know that there've been a few "modern" hifi products that use NuVistors, too!
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* Or is it the Piltdown Man?
27 pages and 530+ posts and that's still the bottom line.Just looking at the first post and not much else....what else would he say to keep that sort of nonsense alive?
When your main purpose is to continue bs in audio....27 pages and 530+ posts and that's still the bottom line.
Stereophiles JA2 just lives to continue every BS piece of snake-oil myth that might bring in a buck or two in ad money. That's his job I guess but one I could never hold due to it's inherit dishonesty and lack of integrity.
To be fair, if Stereophile was more like ASR - there wouldn't be enough subscription revenue to print it, and the 10-12 companies still willing to pay for ad space wouldn't make up the difference. I bet cable and 'tweak' advertisement alone constitutes >30% of their revenue these days.27 pages and 530+ posts and that's still the bottom line.
Stereophiles JA2 just lives to continue every BS piece of snake-oil myth that might bring in a buck or two in ad money. That's his job I guess but one I could never hold due to it's inherit dishonesty and lack of integrity.
I think space charge for that thing might extend to 1kV on the anode.Heck, no!
I'm a fleapower kinda SET guy.
Unless...
hmm...
wonder how it would do running in space charge mode? You know, maybe 20 volts on the plate.
Of course, I'd need a dedicated substation to power the heater in it (35 V @ 435 A).
On the other hand... it is a power triode.
Most people aren't aware of their own agendas. That's why it's an unconscious bias.You are entitled to your opinion, but if I have an agenda it is one I am unaware of.
I cannot, of couse, click "like" but thanks for the explanation. Terrible stuff to have to go through for participants or for witnesses. I misread and/or misunderstood your original post on the topic.Oh this guy was pretty near dead and was being resuscitated with CPR/mouth to mouth back in the day that when that was the method. It was my father a fireman paramedic that was administering industrial first aid to him and he convulsed, vomited in my father's mouth and then died. Horrible stuff. Industrial voltages coming from a hydroelectric dam that powered the facilities at a huge smelter and zinc fertilizer operation. I will never forget that.
Interesting - was it the Mastersound amp tested by Stereophile?No mystery here. The thing is that the distortions in a tube amp does not necessary sound bad, rather it may sound as a nice coloration. I heard this amplifier last week on a pair well known Italian speakers . It sounded just fine, actually really nice on some light jazz.
They may not sound bad, they may sound nice, but to me at least they rarely sound right.No mystery here. The thing is that the distortions in a tube amp does not necessary sound bad, rather it may sound as a nice coloration. I heard this amplifier last week on a pair well known Italian speakers . It sounded just fine, actually really nice on some light jazz.