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Default Eico Tone Control Mod

Yaaaawn. Removing tone controls from a piece of Eico lowest-common-
denominator tin of elcheapo. A more creative act would be to throw it
in the skip. A complete and accurate description of your big project
would be "snip-snip a coupla wires". The rest is shrinkwrapped waffle.
-- AJ

On Nov 26, 11:02 pm, Jon Yaeger wrote:
My latest project is to complete some modifications to an Eico 2080
integrated amplifier, which uses 7591s in PP configuration, and is similar
in many respects to the ST-70 circuit.

Among my goals we

1. To install a remote volume control, using the very nice kit sold by
Mikkel Simonsen, formerly of R.A.T.

2. Remove the tone control circuitry;

3. Design a new faceplate for the reduced number of controls.

In order to achieve goal #1, I used one of the tone control tube positions
as a cathode follower, to drive the 50K motorized volume control. Mikkel's
circuitry included a driver for a mute relay.

I am housing his circuit inside of a metal box installed under the chassis,
to reduce interference as much as possible.

A schematic of one channel the proposed design is posted on:

http://www.yaegeraudio.com/eico_mod.pdf

I welcome any comments / criticisms / suggestions on the proposed design.

Thank you.

Jon