"BretLudwig" wrote in message
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Building oneself a good tube amp or two is a requisite rite of passage for
the true audiophile.
**Bull****. It can be a useful learning experience for some people, however.
I've built a few tube amps over the years. I fixed a few and listened to
lots. I know a lot of audiophiles, whose hearing I respect. Most have never
built anything. Nor do they need to. To draw further on your analogy, it
would be like telling a racing driver that he cannot know how to drive,
until he has built a racing engine.
The quintessential requirements are an amplifier running a pair of
reasonable tubes in push pull with a good output transformer with a well
designed driver stage and an adequate power supply.
It is recommended that point-to-point wiring be used and that the
audiophile construct the chassis himself (rarely, a herself will, but it's
unusual in the extreme, females having more sensible things to do most
often) to achieve the highest satisfaction and skills achievement.
**Bull****, like most of your posts.
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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au