Well...as a new member - Thought I would kick off some Tube Gear

[ohbythebay]

Recently got into tubes. I never tend to do things half way so when I got into it...it was tubes tubes tubes. ..LOL

I have a nice tube power amp at home, but built this office system using an old motorola console tube amp as the power amp. For the pre-amp/input...I bought a $25 kit, put together, built a box, added some retro VU meters and voila ...Cool office system I run with my windows surface...

This little 12 watt per channel thing can actually drive my towers !!

Enjoy

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[joeinid]

Thank you so much for the post. I've been thinking about getting in to some more and different lower powered tube amps. I just love the creamy sound and on my Cornwalls, sublime.

[Paul]

Thank you for share...I never seen this tube amp before ..interesting...

http://audioshark.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=287&d=1365705021

[ohbythebay]

Thank you for share...I never seen this tube amp before ..interesting...



Thank you guys...originally it looked like the picture below...you can see the small preamp I built and am testing before I built the case, the surround, etc.

As far as low powered amps, as a guy who generally pushes about 170wpc, I found out, its not about WPC but about sensitivity. Any speaker rated at at 90 or more DB (Klispch are ofetn 104db) can run on as little as 7 or 8 watts...amazing...

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[jwhite613]

Bay... Is that a popcorn maker? If so how does it figure in to stereo gear?

[dlb2]

That's a sweet little amp Bay. I love the meters.

Joe, I know just the thing for you...:)

[ohbythebay]

Bay... Is that a popcorn maker? If so how does it figure in to stereo gear?

EVERYONE SPOTS THAT ..SHeesh ...LOL

Guess I should say its an tube air cooler...;)

[joeinid]

EVERYONE SPOTS THAT ..SHeesh ...LOL

Guess I should say its an tube air cooler...;)

Or a tube pre-warmer ;)

[dlb2]

Or a tube pre-warmer ;)

Ha! That's what I was thinking Joe. Instead of keeping his gear on to stay warmed up Rob just continuously blasts it with hot air!

[f1 fan]

Beautiful, simple and musical

Dave

[ohbythebay]

Here is a tube amp made from a Hammond organ amp...about 25 Watts per channel

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/69527_540004479348352_234633705_n.jpg

Another console amp I restored...It was a Coronado ..about 12 wpc - very sweet sounding

https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/385226_598320283516771_539878900_n.jpg

Fun stuff

[f1 fan]

Very nice...

Dave

[loonze]

nice! I have one of their 3 channel jobs mostly finished-they sound remarkably good with high sensitivity speakers.