Pictures of your Tube Amplifiers

[nikon f]

Bottlehead Seductor kit, EL84 tubes, four watts. On the right is the Quickie, battery powered preamp.

 

 

[RANGE DOG]

Well someone had to post one of these, great results so far.

Edited September 6, 2020 by RANGE DOG
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[LarryC]

What a fascinating collection of ingenuity and expertise!  My avatar (qv) is one of a pair of Joule Electra 100-watt OTL monoblocs. Jud Barber had a wonderful sense of design, and I find there amps very attractive.  He apparently wasn't a great circuit engineer.  I have a JE preamp which has always been my favorite preamp.

 

 

 

Jud has long faded from the scene, and his products are now very hard to find on the used market, for good reason.  Of course, I can't tell you a dam thing about them,

 

 -- Larry

[J M O N]

The Fi X

 

[mike stehr]

[Full Range]

Amp - Weston Acoustics - From Australia 

http://www.westonacoustics.com.au

 

I have a custom built Tweaker Universal Single Ended  Amplifier  serial number #001 

This amp was purpose built to tube roll 4 different tube types 

Also has switching from Ultralinea Pentode Mode to Triode Mode 

Depending on the combination it will give the owner a range of A Class watts from 4.3 w to 14 w per channel 

Tube types are 6L6GC, KT66, KT88, EL34 

Bios setting is manual 

All hand made using silver wire and the transformers are hand wound 
 

Next Post will be of the custom pre amp 

 

 

 

 

[Full Range]

Next build is of a custom one of a kind preamp serial # 001

Not an ordinary preamp 

It started with a 6SN7 Tempest circuitry

With integrated 

Philips  NOS DAC 

Headphone amplifier 

 

 

This is the pre amp 

[henry4841]

Hey Fullrange, give some of these NOS Russian tubes a try in your amplifier 6N3C. They are the Russian designation for the 6L6, same thing but made when tubes ruled, most to military standards. If you like the 6L6 sound you will like these tubes and they can be purchased on Ebay for give away prices, for what you get. I just bought 4 of them from a USA seller for $25 on Ebay. On Ebay just search for 6L6 and in some descriptions you will find they are 6N3C's or just search for 6N3C. I much prefer NOS tubes over the current productions. 

 

By the way nice looking tube gear. 

[henry4841]

My "Little Sweetie" 6Y6 amplifier designed by our own Maynard. Not much to look at but such a sweet sound. I used a toroid transformer and made mine stereo instead of mono. I found the design on diyaudio. 

 

 

[bkwa1959]

18 hours ago, bkwa1959 said:

below is a picture of my Inspire Hot Rod amp and LP-3.1 preamp I have added tung sol black glass 6sn7gt tubes to the preamp and black glass 6sn7gt ken rad with coke bottle 5u4gt tubes to my power amp.

 

[mustang_flht]

Still my 1996 Cary SLi 50 with 5C3S (5U4G) from the 60s Nos Military SVETLANA with original BOX, 12AU7-T II Gold Psvane, UK 6SN7 Psvane, 6CA7 JJ

 

[Full Range]

1 hour ago, henry4841 said:

Hey Fullrange, give some of these NOS Russian tubes a try in your amplifier 6N3C. They are the Russian designation for the 6L6, same thing but made when tubes ruled, most to military standards. If you like the 6L6 sound you will like these tubes and they can be purchased on Ebay for give away prices, for what you get. I just bought 4 of them from a USA seller for $25 on Ebay. On Ebay just search for 6L6 and in some descriptions you will find they are 6N3C's or just search for 6N3C. I much prefer NOS tubes over the current productions. 

 

By the way nice looking tube gear. 

 

I have quite a few different spare tubes including Russian military speck ( the ones with metal base ) 

They sound sweet 

 

[pallpoul]

One of many tube amps in my collection,...addictive stuff.

[Travis In Austin]

7 hours ago, mike stehr said:

Interesting,  what is it?

[seti]

8 hours ago, JMON said:

The Fi X

 

 

Don Garbers amplifiers are on my collect list. What an amazing sense of design....

[Travis In Austin]

Here's one:

 

[henry4841]

Wow, serious power supply section. 

[John Warren]

My clone of the Scott LK-72A amplifier section with the cage removed.   Needs a nice wooden plinth.  I have a pair of the Scott LK72A/299C output transformer replacements from Transcendar and will swap those in after spending time with the Hammonds.  The Hammonds are a wee bit oversized for the power levels but I had them lying around so why not.  Compensation needed some tweaking with the Hammonds.  Also, the original design used silver mica in the FDBK return which I had a bit of a time with.  For some reason, which I'm still noodling, MLCC provided much better stability based on the analyzer response. 

 

 

The amp is insanely quiet.  Spectrum analyzer shows flat well out past 50kHz.  

 

If there's ever another Pilgrimage I might be tempted to drive this thing and a modified version that's almost complete down to Hope so we can all listen, compare, contrast.

 

  

[Schu]

[mustang_flht]

Nice Wood box