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

ohbythebay

ohbythebay

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

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BlueMcIntosh said:
Thank you for share...I never seen this tube amp before ..interesting...
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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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More tube stuff !!

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

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

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