Hi guys
I fancy building myself a tube hi-fi amp sometime soon. I don't much like giant horn speakers or expensive triode tubes, so I guess I'll go for something fairly high-powered using ordinary tubes, that can drive ordinary speakers pretty loud. It would probably end up more or less a Dynaco Stereo 70 clone.
Anyway, the question is, what happens if I use other tubes than EL34s in the ultra-linear output stage? For instance the Sovtek so-called "5881s" that you can get really cheap nowadays. Does it still stay nice and ultra-linear or will I get some sort of weird communist distortion? ;-)
I have a stash of Mullard and Philips EL34s, but I'd rather save them for my guitar amps. I get the feeling a stereo amp is going to get left on longer and eat tubes faster.
steve
I fancy building myself a tube hi-fi amp sometime soon. I don't much like giant horn speakers or expensive triode tubes, so I guess I'll go for something fairly high-powered using ordinary tubes, that can drive ordinary speakers pretty loud. It would probably end up more or less a Dynaco Stereo 70 clone.
Anyway, the question is, what happens if I use other tubes than EL34s in the ultra-linear output stage? For instance the Sovtek so-called "5881s" that you can get really cheap nowadays. Does it still stay nice and ultra-linear or will I get some sort of weird communist distortion? ;-)
I have a stash of Mullard and Philips EL34s, but I'd rather save them for my guitar amps. I get the feeling a stereo amp is going to get left on longer and eat tubes faster.
steve
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