audio-talk

Germans playing France at football is like the Welsh playing France at Rugby.

I always want both teams to lose....

Mike H wrote:Gotta have the safety slippers!

...and the "excited trousers"...

Many of you won't know him, but Gerd Reinhöfer ( http://www.roehrentechnik.de/ ) was one of the stalwarts of http://www.jogis-roehrenbude.de/ and a true expert of all things valve & transformer-related. He died unexpectedly suddenly in March - I only found out today whilst chasing some orders I...

If you want some valve "porn" I'll post a photo of my 3000v CT mains transformers. :lol: Amateur. My main hobby used to be serious HV (Tesla Coils, EM can-crushers, Jacob's Ladders, big CW multipliers, Marx generators etc.). 3kV wouldn't even get you past the entrance. I started getting w...

Dungeness wouldn't be much of a holiday - its only about 45 minutes from the shack. The Turks don't seem to be much into valve audio but reading MJ is considerably better than the complete drivel they have on the "book swap" shelf here... Whatever, the Lycian coast is lovely - largely unsp...

Light reading in 40c.... sad, or what ?

Regrettably, the pendulum swings away from the first and third Olgas and slightly towards the second

We were caving (my sons and I) and were amazed that she got through the squeezes...

One of the Russian girls on the dive boat was a model and didn't she just know it...

Pretty extreme indeed. ..

Olga-the-divemistress was quite a sight....

42C in Southern Antalya today. No rain expected for months. ...

3 good dive sessions and a bunch of snorkling with lunch on the boat....

I'll be thinking of you...

I don't know what rectifiers you hope to use, but a hybrid bridge with two 6DS22 damper diodes has a lot to recommend, and the AnTeks I use have the required 6.3v windings. I was intending to use a hybrid Graetz bridge anyway - the 6D22S was in the frame as I have 6 in stock, though 6AX4-GTB is als...

Started today....

When accessing the forum main page from an Android phone, I get a "Certificate is not from a trusted authority" message about http://d.agkn.com/pixel/2378.... The certificate is issued by DigiCert Inc and the error indicates that the certificate was probably not installed correctly - see h...

Coca Cola works because it contains traces of phosphoric acid, which is the active ingredient in this case. You can buy phosphoric acid from eBay - its easier & cleaner than using Coke but you mustn't drink it :) A 10% solution works very well for minor cleanups. I use 30% from cleaning rusty ra...

2 x mono-blocks + 2 x PSUs. Mono-blocks & PSUs to be mirror images. Weight is a consideration - I got the 4 Jumbo sockets today - lovely, but they alone weigh 1.5kg, The OPTs are 6kg each. Each block is likely to weigh 15kg or so, so a single amp would be nuts. I will use a sub-chassis + a top p...

That's pretty much what Max was doing:



Another approach: http://www.labjc.com/?p=21