finally got his 16-A....

... and Elmore James has never sounded better... 

initial placement

it is a Subaru thing

road trip!

yep... pile o' parts

random barn photo

final setup

repro 16a (better bends than any original I have seen)

original WE555's, single Coral tweeter

rebuilt amp (globe 50's), 416's bi-amped

shocking how good this sounds... you just sit there with your mouth agape... 

so much detail.. transients... and then you end up dancing!

*so* much fun....

peace,

me

Round Plates

This is a circa 1990 Alessa Vaic copy of a Marconi R-type and it has that beautiful round plate structure we have grown to love. 

Unfortunately the tube has no emission and the real purpose for this post is behind the tube which is a set of iron for another round plate tube that does the R-type X 4... the 304TL.

The bigger ones are the SE outputs that can take 200ma of plate current while putting out 40 watts at 50hz.  They have bandwidth (-1dB) from 7hz to 49Khz and can do all of this due to the offset winding that runs the 12.5A filament current through the outputs in the opposite direction as the B+.  This brings the other two chokes into play which are the 20mhy 12.5A filament chokes that keeps the offset winding from loading down the tube.

The set of 4 weighs in at 46 pounds of copper and amorphous and boy am I glad the topic of silver never came up.

DIY Western Electric 417A Kit.

 A four+ year ebay hunt finally payed off when I bagged this little gem.  I first saw one down in DC at mikes place and from that moment I needed one.    According to mike, they made these at the factory and used the vacuum pump to get all of the air out.  The pics below are from some different angles so you can see all the parts.

proud papa....

in the realm of DIY, "proud papa" usually refers to pride in a work that you have created... in this corner of DIY, usually an amp or speaker... but in this case, I am actually a proud papa...

my oldest called me one day and told me that he found some gear... and this is the photo from his dorm room:

for scale, that is his laptop.. and yes, a full size laptop... I am so proud!

[and Happy New Year!  one of my resolutions is to start blogging twice a week.. I realized that I had been extraordinarily slack in posting when twice in the same week someone asked why I linked them to "dave's blog"... sheesh!]

peace,
me

Choke me in the shallow water....

...before I get too deep.

What is pictured above is 14 pounds of copper and amorphous in the form of some 12hy 200ma PS chokes.  The interesting little additional fact is they can handle 1000Vac @ 120hz without buzzing and will be used as L1 after some 872's in a GM70 amp.

Bjorn must be one unlucky guy....

with 13 as his lucky number it finally paid off.

contact me by email with your delivery info.

dave

Black Free-Day

Up for grabs is a pair of the autoformer modules.

add a comment with your name and random.org will pick the winner on cyber moanday.  (worldwide shipping is on us)