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The collection - and the collector
Hi RATs!
The Lafayette is one of several Lafayettes I have 'won' on Ebay. It required lots of work, OK, maybe a few hours for a healthy tech, several weeks for yours truly I have not yet tried the other Lafayettes. I also had great success with a Fisher X-101-B, last of the tube rectified Fishers. It slipped out of service when I tried to convert it to cathode bias and experienced a regression in my mixed blessing disease last year. Fixed bias is good for extracting more power from the tube. It is bad for being more complex and thereby more susceptable to the whimsies of MTBF. I saw lots of nice old tube amps, speaking meta-physically, floating by in the stream of the Ebay listings and gathered some in for future restoration and modification. They cost only the price of a few CDs each and are some Heaven, which is there to coax me to extend my reach beyond my grasp, as it were. If nothing else, they are now going to be cleaned and stored in Phoenix, where the climate usually is not too corrosive. This winter's rains are not usual, right? _____ I usually replace all caps, eventually, but, this old pair was too pretty not to try. I had hardwired the circuit without caps and there were a few DC anomolies in the sound. The old caps silenced them. If they act up, I will change them, too. ____ Start of Sermonette Health of this group ... health is a favorite topic of power trippers. Hitler made lots of loyal fans by getting rid of sick people, as in killing them. If anyone's posts offend you, just don't read them anymore. It is childish thinking to say: "Your behaviour offends me. You change." Each of us must change to find our path through this world. None of us need change to make a path for our arrogant brethren. Take your healthy schtick and jam it where the sun don't shine. End of Sermonette _____ Happy Ears! Al |
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"Al Marcy" wrote in message om... Hi RATs! The Lafayette is one of several Lafayettes I have 'won' on Ebay. It required lots of work, OK, maybe a few hours for a healthy tech, several weeks for yours truly I have not yet tried the other Lafayettes. I also had great success with a Fisher X-101-B, last of the tube rectified Fishers. It slipped out of service when I tried to convert it to cathode bias and experienced a regression in my mixed blessing disease last year. Fixed bias is good for extracting more power from the tube. It is bad for being more complex and thereby more susceptable to the whimsies of MTBF. I saw lots of nice old tube amps, speaking meta-physically, floating by in the stream of the Ebay listings and gathered some in for future restoration and modification. They cost only the price of a few CDs each and are some Heaven, which is there to coax me to extend my reach beyond my grasp, as it were. If nothing else, they are now going to be cleaned and stored in Phoenix, where the climate usually is not too corrosive. This winter's rains are not usual, right? _____ I usually replace all caps, eventually, but, this old pair was too pretty not to try. I had hardwired the circuit without caps and there were a few DC anomolies in the sound. The old caps silenced them. If they act up, I will change them, too. ____ Start of Sermonette Health of this group ... health is a favorite topic of power trippers. Hitler made lots of loyal fans by getting rid of sick people, as in killing them. If anyone's posts offend you, just don't read them anymore. It is childish thinking to say: "Your behaviour offends me. You change." Each of us must change to find our path through this world. None of us need change to make a path for our arrogant brethren. Take your healthy schtick and jam it where the sun don't shine. End of Sermonette _____ Happy Ears! Al Hi Al - I know you've mentioned it before, but my memory is a sieve (except for a few stray things). How sick are you? Here's a pea-power homebrew you might find amusing. http://genericbiz.biz/45/ Design intent? To see a bunch of old tubes glow... Hope you feel good 'nuf.. -dim |