Hi RATS
Check out this e-bay auction. How rare is this piece and who wants to
bet this is going to cost an arm when it finally sells
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=32 80
Regards
Mike M

michael Mueller wrote:
Hi RATS
Check out this e-bay auction. How rare is this piece and who wants to
bet this is going to cost an arm when it finally sells
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=32 80
Regards
Mike M


Interesting... I won't even speculate how much this will ultimately sell
for.

One thing I found very interesting -- apparently it uses the EL500
(6GB5) for outputs, a tube which (in the RCA manual at least) is only
listed as a horizontal sweep tube for TV sets.

Cheers,
Fred
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Fred Nachbaur wrote:


One thing I found very interesting -- apparently it uses the EL500
(6GB5) for outputs, a tube which (in the RCA manual at least) is only
listed as a horizontal sweep tube for TV sets.

Sweep tubes make for decent audio amps. You don't have to worry about
overvoltageing
the plate, but be mindful of the plate current to avoid red plates. See:
http://home.netcom.com/~wa2ise/radios/compaa3.html
where I used a compactron sweep tube as an audio amp in an AM radio
(not hifi, but the concepts are the same).

A major reason for using sweep tubes is that they are plentiful and cheap.

"michael Mueller" wrote in message
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Hi RATS
Check out this e-bay auction. How rare is this piece and who wants to
bet this is going to cost an arm when it finally sells

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=32 80

Damn. It's gone up 200 bucks in 15 hours! With bidding exponential as it
is, and 9 full days left, well,, GOT damn I wish I had one of those...

Tim

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Well
i bet there will be quite a battle
around this amp. Klein & Hummel
used the same tubes (or EL5000, which must be
the higher grade EL500?) for their amplified
speakers, and those had to be flat from 20Hz
to 20kHz, due to german radio monitoring
specifications (remember that germans were in
a sense the inventors of HIFI FM radio). Maybe
i can find a schematics somewhere. So
i would bet that this amp should sound good,
if the caps and so are still ok. Anyway,
it will probably go for quite a high price
(1000?) cause here in Europe this kind of gear
is very sought after (ouch, what a terrible
english).

JY.

michael Mueller wrote:
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Check out this e-bay auction. How rare is this piece and who wants to
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Regards
Mike M

Looks like a heap of comercial junk.
Phil.

Amazing how Ebay sellers will take a tube amp and jack-up the description
until some poor soul pays through the nose and ends-up frying it when some
vintage Power Supply cap decides to fail on today's higher-than-normal mains
voltage levels. To the buyer, good luck! To the seller nice sales pitch!

"michael Mueller" wrote in message
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Hi RATS
Check out this e-bay auction. How rare is this piece and who wants to
bet this is going to cost an arm when it finally sells

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...ategory=32 80
Regards
Mike M