Maybe not this week

Post by **Nick** » Thu Jan 17, 2013 10:44 pm

http://www.tube-sale.com/index.php/tube ... 2-replica/

andrew Ivimey · Post by **andrew Ivimey** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 8:50 am

No, I'll let the rush die down, maybe have a coffee first.

PSVANE seem to eb teh new oriental boy on the block. DOes anyone know if they are any good, at all? Their marketting strategy is to 'appeal' to the conoisseur i.e. those with loads of money!

IslandPink · Post by **IslandPink** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:48 am

Yum !
It would be difficult to beat the STC ones though ( thanks Paul for the three-way comparison in ~2005 ! ) . I bet you could pick up original ones ( as singles ) for less than these sort of prices ?

Hadn't realised they only needed a 5K load .

pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:10 am

I don't lust after "big" valves any more.

Mike H · Post by **Mike H** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:30 pm

andrew Ivimey wrote:No, I'll let the rush die down, maybe have a coffee first.

PSVANE seem to eb teh new oriental boy on the block. DOes anyone know if they are any good, at all? Their marketting strategy is to 'appeal' to the conoisseur i.e. those with loads of money!

Psvane used to be GuiGuang apparently. The directors had a bust up or something and a new company came out of it. Which, additionally, seems (to me at least) to want to be 'more up-market'

Mike H · Post by **Mike H** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:34 pm

PS: my last 300B's were GG's, from wotsisname in Hong Kong, doesn't look like I can afford any more now. Suddenly found myself a while back looking at gold grid EH's (?) and going "hmmm" ....

pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 9:44 pm

Mike H wrote:PS: my last 300B's were GG's, from wotsisname in Hong Kong, doesn't look like I can afford any more now. Suddenly found myself a while back looking at gold grid EH's (?) and going "hmmm" ....

Invest in a pair of cheap 811a, and then wait for DTB to perfect an A2 circuit.

Will knock 300b into a cocked hat.

Dave the bass · Post by **Dave the bass** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:18 pm

pre65 wrote:
Invest in a pair of cheap 811a, and then wait for DTB to perfect an A2 circuit.

Will knock 300b into a cocked hat.

Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha (etc)!

I'd invest in some 300B's if I was you Mike!!!

DTB

pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:21 pm

I think Mike would soon find a way with 811a, after all he had a lot to do with my version, and that works quite well.

andrew Ivimey · Post by **andrew Ivimey** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:06 pm

its just that when you look at what 300bs are supposed to do you can see why they are very popular. Its only us weirdos who search forsomething better ...

ehggs where are they?

pre65 · Post by **pre65** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:16 pm

andrew Ivimey wrote:its just that when you look at what 300bs are supposed to do you can see why they are very popular. Its only us weirdos who search forsomething better ...

ehggs where are they?

Used to be an e-bay seller, China arts ? (or something like that)

PS

Nice pair of 300b amps here.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nick-Gorham-3 ... 3f1fd1ce16

andrew Ivimey · Post by **andrew Ivimey** » Fri Jan 18, 2013 11:37 pm

yeah I told you that - who'd think eh!

Paul Barker · Post by **Paul Barker** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 8:44 am

pre65 wrote:
andrew Ivimey wrote:its just that when you look at what 300bs are supposed to do you can see why they are very popular. Its only us weirdos who search forsomething better ...

ehggs where are they?
Used to be an e-bay seller, China arts ? (or something like that)

PS

Nice pair of 300b amps here.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Nick-Gorham-3 ... 3f1fd1ce16

Lovely job. Two questions for nick. How did you get the Partridge output transformers, is someone making them again or are they NOS? and can you repeat that or will you substitute them in the next build? When are you coming up with a Gorham FET front end Phono stage? I looked at everything the seller lists and such a quality phono stage would surely fit into the genre.

Power to your elbow though. Good to see the British taking back some of the market after the cheap imports vertually killed it dead with devastating effects on British companies.. The problem was we were left with Russian Roulette Quality, just as we are with all modern mass market electronics due to the death of the British element.

Post by **Nick** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 10:39 am

The chap who wanted the amps building (couple of years ago now) decided to use them and got them. I think there were from

http://www.partridgeelectronics.co.uk/index.htm

They were nice sounding TX's, just would have been better potted.

Those amps went to a day at SimonC''s a couple of years ago.

Paul Barker · Post by **Paul Barker** » Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:19 am

Interesting.

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