"flipper" <flipper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, 13 May 2008 18:18:04 +0300, "Iain Churches"
> <IainNG@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>"flipper" <flipper@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 16:56:53 +0300, "Iain Churches"
>>> <IainNG@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>"Patrick Turner" <info@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>>I seem to have lost contact.
>>>>> Patrick Turner.
>>>>
>>>>I wondered if your 845 amps had gone up in
>>>>smoke, and taken you with them:-)
>>>>
>>> I wondered about everyone because the group seemed to be dern near
>>> dead silent for a while.
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>>We are all probably fettling away on tube projects:-)
>
> Well, that would explain the unusual nature of if ;)
>
>>I have a tube driven VU level indicator unit just complete
>>and ready for calibration. Pics available if anyone is
>>interested.
>
> Oh, oh, oh... me, me, me <waving hand>
LOL:-)
In the past most of my projects although performing well,
having been pretty "agricultural" in appearance.
http://www.kolumbus.fi/iain.churches/Pics/252Amplifier/252.02.jpg
I now share a workshop with some pretty skilled guys,
one of whom hand crafts the most beautiful acoustic guitars,
and custom made tube amps. Another is very good as machining,
CNC etc, and PCB design and so I am on a steep learning curve
(once again)
Putting a tube amp in a posh case does nothing to improve
its actual performance, but takes it out of the "home-made"
into the "hand-made" category, and greatly increases
what high-end salesmen call PQ (perceived quality:-)
It is interesting to talk with people about amplifier
cosmetic design - what they think the amplifier of their
choice should look like. Few, when confronted with
a blank sheet of paper, can come up with anything
at all:-)
Once you have made something, and demonstrate it to
them however, they invariable say: "Why have you done
it like this? If I had build it, I would have..........."
Fun innit:-)
Iain
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