I admit I don't know much about tube amps, but perusing engadget this morning I saw this and thought it looked like a pretty crazy build. Figured it was worth reposting here. Enjoy!
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Pretty cool! How 'bout that absolutely massive transformer! Thanks for posting. -
oh my.....that thing is a monster !Dave
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Tubes? Yeah, we like tubes.
A couple weeks ago, we (PewterTA & I) got to listen to the Carver Silver 7's at our local shop, Vintage HiFi of Pittsburgh. The red amps are the new Carver VTA 305 monoblocks.
The last photo shows the shop's working vintage "Tube Tester" which those of us 'seasoned' enough remember seeing at every local drug & hardware store when we were kids.
Link to a 1990 Review of the 7's
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Oooooooooooooh...... :banana:
CHRIS
Well, we're safe for now. Thank goodness we're in a bowling alley.
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That's quite an amp build!
I used to have a pair of these monoblocks -I believe they were 220 WPC. Heavy and would get HOT!
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BTW - those Carver's look cool too...DanishComment
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The 807 is originally a transmitting tube. The cap on top of the tube is the plate connection. I hope he puts that 1000 watter in a cabinet considering all the exposed high voltage
On the subject of power, you don't necessarily need a lot of power. I did a restoration for movie projection in an old 2000 seat movie palace a few years ago. The sound was a 50 watt amp driving a Voice of the Theater speaker with two 15 inch woofers and a large horn on top. You could rattle the place with bass and blast everyone out when it was turned up.Electrons have more fun in a vacuumComment
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First step into tube amps…
Cayin TA-30
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I have not wire maintenance yet!
I bought a new amp a few weeks ago to try and improve my two channel music experience. About 8 months ago I invested in some Martin Logan speakers. I loved... -
Crazy idea time. I'm stealing this from a post at the PE Forum by Spasticteapot. He wondered about using steel tube for enclosures. I'm not sure if he did anything with it, because he had problems getting tube steel. I'm a structural engineer - I don't have problems getting tube steel. So, today I picked... -
Ok, here's my attempt at a review of my recently-upgraded "Cubicle Audio System", featuring the ASL MG Head OTL tube headphone amp, especially designed to fill my head with great sounding music while I slave away at my PC at work!
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After in-home demos of the Jolida and Cary tube ouput cd players and hi-fi shop demos of the Shanling and Musical Fidelity tube output cd players, I opted for an Arcam CD36 solid state player for my system cd player upgrade.
Initially, I was very enamored with the warm sound and centered... -
I am by no means a hi-fi/home theater equipment reviewing journalist. I live in the real world where kit is not delivered to my door from the distributor for the latest issue of hearmystuffissocool.com or hifioverthetopcostnooption magazine. I am a student using all my savings to buy bang-for-buck new,...
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