"Keith G" wrote in message
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"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.


More totally stupid *advice* from Trevor...

**Not at all. We do things a little differently in this part of the world.
We don't marry a woman without tasting the cooking or checking out the
bedroom performance. We don't buy a car without test driving it first and
and we don't buy hi fi equipment without first listening to it. At least,
that's how sane people do it.


For a kick-off, how TF do you suggest he goes about organising the test -
ask 'Valve Amps R Us' if he can play with half their stock for a few hours
then, having picked one (real easy), ask them for a circuit diagram and a
parts list for it...??

**If you can't hear it, don't buy it. Very simple.

Trevor Wilson