On Jan 1, 8:39*am, "Phil Allison" wrote:
"Ian Iveson Colossal *****HEAD" "
How would you explain to a novice how to design a valve amplifier?
** Wot an insanely *STUPID * troll.
Novices need to first discover how tube amps work and why they are built in
the various ways they commonly are.
Then they need to build a few circuits and tinker with them.
Then they need to have a well equipped workshop in order to do performance
testing and maybe refine what they have built.
They do *NOT *and probably *NEVER WILL need to know how design new tube
circuits that have not been already designed.
I'm with you all the way up to here, Phil.
And you cannot teach such a rare talent to anyone.
But that should not stop those of us who are qualified to explain
subtle and complicated things from trying, even if the effort only
succeeds in clarifying our own minds. I've in fact done it for tubes
several times already, most recently at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/T...mp%20INDEX.htm . Of
course, the teaching has not been grafted successfully on too many of
the students, but that is, as you say, only to be expected with such a
tricky subject. I wouldn't count Iveson among my greatest successes...
****wit.
If Iveson had any brains, he would instead spend his time designing a
tube amp cheap enough for a student to build, so that we can interest
the younger generation. My own designs of an inexpensive amp and
speakers for a student are at
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/Jute-EL34-SEntry.jpg and
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/K...Impresario.jpg
and are described in
http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/JUTE%20ON%20AMPS.htm
..... * Phil
Andre Jute
from a family of teachers and preachers