On Oct 30, 4:15 pm, max graff wrote:
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.

I have proved to myself that I can solder well and don't have shakey
hands and did EE in my previous life.

Cheer Max.

Hey, Max:

I don't have time to read all the agitations of the silicon slime
trying to rain on your parade before it starts, so I don't know if
someone has asked about your speakers yet. If you sensitive speakers,
there is a quick, simple, cheap amp on my netsite called the SEntry,
trioded EL34 in SE for about 2W. There is also on my netsite a design
for a speaker that is both sensitive and cheap to build, The
Impresario; the compromise for the low cost and ease of build is that
it is rather large. I emphasize cheap because my experience is that no
one builds only one tube amp: there is always something else they want
to try.

There are four books you must have: Radio Designer's Handbook by F
Langford-Smith, 4th ed; Valve Amplifiers by Morgan Jones: a late RCA
tube ref for the specs: a tube era ARRL manual (surprisingly many main
libraries still have them in the stacks, or any library can get it for
you from the British Library). A good tube-era author to dip into is
Norman Crowhurst.

Andre Jute
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