[Andre Jute]

(This is in reply to a thread already on the group, but Google now
shows me a narrow little slot and no way I can see to reply to
messages, only to post new ones.)

A cheap DIY amp is he
http://www.tubeaudio.com/page23.html
Apparently there is an entire community that builds and develops or at
least tweaks these things.

Andre Jute
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[RapidRonnie]

On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, "Andre Jute" wrote:
(This is in reply to a thread already on the group, but Google now
shows me a narrow little slot and no way I can see to reply to
messages, only to post new ones.)

A cheap DIY amp is hehttp://www.tubeaudio.com/page23.html
Apparently there is an entire community that builds and develops or at
least tweaks these things.



It's all on a circuit board. And the transformers look as though
they're a couple of bucks apiece.

[Andre Jute]

The thief Bret Ludwig sprays negativity like spittle:
On Feb 4, 6:30 pm, "Andre Jute" wrote:
A cheap DIY amp is hehttp://www.tubeaudio.com/page23.html
Apparently there is an entire community that builds and develops or at
least tweaks these things.



It's all on a circuit board. And the transformers look as though
they're a couple of bucks apiece.

With a complete tube amp kit for USD 225, what more do you want,
Ludwig? Lundahl iron? Grow up, man.
http://www.tubeaudio.com/page23.html

And the transformers look as though
they're a couple of bucks apiece.

I remember the Thordarson TV-source line transformers on the first
Bottlehead SEX amp, which I built to review in Glass Audio: they
sounded bloody good, and on some kinds of music better than USD200
Magnequest Peerless TFA204 ripoffs.

Here's an SE kit for USD259 including delivery and a nickelplated
case:
http://www.lh-electric.4t.com/sta44.htm

If you were to learn to look behind the first appearance of things,
Ludwig, you'd have nothing left to whine about.

Andre Jute
Visit Jute on Amps at http://members.lycos.co.uk/fiultra/
"wonderfully well written and reasoned information
for the tube audio constructor"
John Broskie TubeCAD & GlassWare
"an unbelievably comprehensive web site
containing vital gems of wisdom"
Stuart Perry Hi-Fi News & Record Review