What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

You can have any componant - could be a unit like an amp, or a part
like a pair of WE 300b?

What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

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Andy
Evans wrote:
You can have any componant - could be a unit like an amp, or a part like
a pair of WE 300b?

What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

Shure V15/III with MR stylus in perfect 'as new' condition. :-)

Slainte,

Jim

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What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

Andy Evans wrote:

You can have any componant - could be a unit like an amp, or a part
like a pair of WE 300b?

What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

Townshend Rock. I've always wanted a Rock.

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 04:32:29 -0800, Andy Evans wrote:

You can have any componant - could be a unit like an amp, or a part like
a pair of WE 300b?

What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

A new pot for my amp volume control. The crackle is driving me mad.

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b.
I haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need
the best handshake possible!!!

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:27:15 -0800, Andy Evans wrote:

For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b. I
haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need the
best handshake possible!!!

I'm sure I'd want some as well, if I knew what they were. :-) Probably
just as well, because they sound very expensive.

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

"Silk" wrote in message
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On Sun, 16 Dec 2007 13:27:15 -0800, Andy Evans wrote:

For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b. I
haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need the
best handshake possible!!!

I'm sure I'd want some as well, if I knew what they were. :-) Probably
just as well, because they sound very expensive.

Interstage transformers, as used in the distant past to couple the signal
from the anode of one valve to the grid of the next. They went out of favour
in the 1930s when higher-gain valves made RC coupling more useable.

David.

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 09:52:30 +0000, David Looser wrote:

Interstage transformers, as used in the distant past to couple the
signal from the anode of one valve to the grid of the next. They went
out of favour in the 1930s when higher-gain valves made RC coupling more
useable.

And transistors made the whole bloody lot obsolete before most people who
still have their hearing were born, thank goodness. ;-)

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

"Andy Evans" wrote in message
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For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b.
I haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need
the best handshake possible!!!


Speak to Santa Sowter. He and his team of industrious
elves fulfill such wishes on a daily basis:-)

Regards
Iain

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

On Dec 17, 6:08�pm, "Iain Churches" wrote:
"Andy Evans" wrote in message

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For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b.
I haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need
the best handshake possible!!!

Speak to Santa Sowter. He and his team of industrious
elves fulfill such wishes on a daily basis:-)

I hear contradictory things about Sowter, except for the universal
fact that his stuff is expensive. There's a cheap nickel Hammond
transformer but it's stepdown - as previously mentioned 1:1
interstages date from the period where DHTs were low mu - up to 15 -
and stepdowns are really only useful for medium and high mu valves,
which ain't my cup of tea. Dave Slagle will build a nickel one, so
that's once possibility. Another is Lundahl amorphous core, like the
LL1660. I'm bracing myself to let go of some money here. I built a 10Y
preamp for a friend, output was the usual LL1660/5mA. Sounded so
utterly wonderful I can't wait to build another!!! But has to be 1:1 -
can't sacrifice any of my hard won gain with these DHTs.

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

"Andy Evans" wrote in message
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On Dec 17, 6:08?pm, "Iain Churches" wrote:
"Andy Evans" wrote in message

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For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b.
I haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need
the best handshake possible!!!

Speak to Santa Sowter. He and his team of industrious
elves fulfill such wishes on a daily basis:-)

I hear contradictory things about Sowter, except for the universal
fact that his stuff is expensive. There's a cheap nickel Hammond
transformer but it's stepdown - as previously mentioned 1:1
interstages date from the period where DHTs were low mu - up to 15 -
and stepdowns are really only useful for medium and high mu valves,
which ain't my cup of tea. Dave Slagle will build a nickel one, so
that's once possibility. Another is Lundahl amorphous core, like the
LL1660. I'm bracing myself to let go of some money here. I built a 10Y
preamp for a friend, output was the usual LL1660/5mA. Sounded so
utterly wonderful I can't wait to build another!!! But has to be 1:1 -
can't sacrifice any of my hard won gain with these DHTs.

Sowter may not be the cheapest, but their transformers *are* superb. I've
used their transformers professionally since 1971, and have always had good
results. Some years ago, I designed and built a 100watt pc. stereo ULPP
amplifier using 6550A valves, and they wound the output and mains
transformers and smoothing chokes.

In the early 70s, I met Dr Sowter, who at the time was over 80, long since
retired from the day-to-day of his company, but still the main design
authority. I was fresh out of University and needed help with some
transformers for the Broadcast Audio routing switchers I was designing. A
most illuminating day, one I shall never forget. Real experts, with a deep
and detailed knowledge of their subject were a delight for a young engineer.
Similar impressions were made by Peter Walker and Angus Mackenzie, who's
eyes I was for one memorable AES meeting, where he needed someone to read
the 'scope for him.

S.


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"Andy Evans" wrote in message
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On Dec 17, 6:08?pm, "Iain Churches" wrote:
"Andy Evans" wrote in message

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For me, I want a couple of really good sounding 1:1 interstages, SE so
gapped, and in nickel and sounding fabulous - to link a 10Y to a 300b.
I haven't found anything better than these two valves, so I just need
the best handshake possible!!!

Speak to Santa Sowter. He and his team of industrious
elves fulfill such wishes on a daily basis:-)

I hear contradictory things about Sowter, except for the universal
fact that his stuff is expensive.

I have been a Sowter customer since I joined Decca in the mid 60's.
They made huge numbers of transformers for studio and broadcast,
and I have never heard a single complaint or anything contradictory.
My own experiences with then have been first class.

Regards
Iain

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You can have any componant - could be a unit like an amp,
or a part like a pair of WE 300b?

What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

I already got it - a HDTV card for my PC.

What single componant would you like for Xmas!!!
 

What would you like Santa to drop down your lucky chimney?

Gosh I'm spoilt for choice, there's sooo much :-(

At top of my list tho' is a marvelous 5.1 speaker system, although it aint
single! The product..... erm.

Failing that a Pioneer 428XD plasma TV.