Please read the post “That Didn’t Go Well!” before following the power supply change detailed in the later half of this post.
Sometimes a design which seems fine at first can later exhibit some marginal behavior. This exact issue recently reared its head with the design of the 6L6 “Spalted Alder” amplifier.
Continue readingBeing a proponent of single ended topologies, I am constantly on the lookout for singleton power tubes. Since I’m working on designs with all single ended signal chains, things like matching and bias points as less important to me than tubes which test strong and are reliable. One source containing lots of singleton “New Old Stock” and “Used” power tubes is Ebay. Often I can get a single power tube for far less than buying from one of the more established vacuum tube business on the web. But I have begun to wonder about whether these are really such a great deal after all.
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