IslandPink wrote: ↑Sun May 02, 2021 11:09 pm
Impressive work in such a short space of time. Glad you are enjoying it.
I love my 45's for the treble.
Yep, I’m certainly enjoying it. I’m not going to go all flowery prose about the sound as most of you, having used 45s at some point already know about that.
Paul Barker wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 7:18 am
I’m dumbstruck how quick.
It’s just me Paul. Part of my mental health profile I’m afraid.
I get the bit between my teeth and that’s it; there’s no stopping me. I’ve probably spent 30 out of the 48 hours that made up the weekend, hunched over a soldering iron and testing and rejecting different scenarios, so much so that I ran out of solder yesterday and had to call on our Ant for some more.
The result was (for once) well worth the effort. And the missus got complete control of the telly for the whole weekend, so everybody’s happy.
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Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
Sounds perfectly fine to me. You wanted to do something, you had the parts on hand to do it, you did it. What would have been improved by taking longer?
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Nick wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 10:36 am
Sounds perfectly fine to me. You wanted to do something, you had the parts on hand to do it, you did it. What would have been improved by taking longer?
Not a lot. It would just have taken a bit longer for my hands to get shot to pieces.
Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
The Teflon cap is probably just right. The minor earlier LF roll off would probably not be missed, a grid choke would restore the lower base more importantly phase shift lowered. So trying that might sound better. I could bring two for us to try (when we’re permitted) but I have to take them home for my project.
Glad you’re respecting the 45’s.
Bet it’s toned and delicate.
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Paul Barker wrote: ↑Mon May 03, 2021 6:22 pm
...a grid choke would restore the lower base more importantly phase shift lowered. So trying that might sound better. I could bring two for us to try (when we’re permitted) but I have to take them home for my project.
Glad you’re respecting the 45’s.
Bet it’s toned and delicate.
Sounds like a good plan Paul.
You've got to respect these old valves.
Aye, it's the tone that does it for me.
Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
Well I'm so entranced with 45s, I just had to make a couple of plinky plonk playlists from my iTunes library to show 'em off.
Here's a few tracks from one of the lists: I'm impressed by the sheer unadulterated plinkyplonkyness of some of this stuff I'd forgotten I had
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Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
Seriously though, I feel privileged to be using these lovely old devices.
I’m back in the DHT club after a 10 year hiatus.
It’s down to the single driver speakers and their 100dB efficiency as much as it is to the 45s, as these speakers enable the best use of very low power amplification.
I should get the Black Gate cap today and Paul has posted the second pair of valves.
All I can say is thanks to Paul, my mystery benefactor and Nick. So I should have 45 sound for the rest of my natural. Excellent! AT is a great place to be part of.
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Sgt. Baker started talkin’ with a Bullhorn in his hand.
Cressy Snr wrote: ↑Wed May 05, 2021 8:06 am
Seriously though, I feel privileged to be using these lovely old devices.
I’m back in the DHT club after a 10 year hiatus.
It’s down to the single driver speakers and their 100dB efficiency as much as it is to the 45s, as these speakers enable the best use of very low power amplification.
I should get the Black Gate cap today and Paul has posted the second pair of valves.
All I can say is thanks to Paul, my mystery benefactor and Nick. So I should have 45 sound for the rest if my natural. Excellent! AT is a great place to be part of.
Thats great Steve, I find a couple of watts more than adequate too, i hope you still have it in one piece when we can have a session.. I would love to hear it.
The tube manual is quite like a telephone book. The number of it perfect. It is useful to make it possible to speak with a girl. But we can't see her beautiful face from the telephone number
and Nick. So I should have 45 sound for the rest of my natural. Excellent! AT is a great place to be part of.