"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"max graff" wrote in message
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Hi guys,

I am planning on building my own valve amp and need a starting point
viz. books, forums etc. Any tips would be of good help.

**Just listen to a bunch of amps in your price range. Buy or build the one
you like. Just for yuks, see if you can organise a blind test of the amps.
That orta sort out the dodgy ones. For valve amps, unless you build it
PRECISELY the way you hear it (same valves, same output transformers, etc)
you will be wasting your time.



It is *never* a waste if time, Trevor.
For many, that is the whole point of building a valve/tube amp. One can
try different brands of the same small signal tube. They will probably have
identical very low distortion, but slightly differing distortion spectra.
Each will sound a little different - not necessarily better or worse -
but different. That's what people mean by "tube voicing"

It's a fascinating hobby.

Iain