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Wife decides she wants to 'see' all of her CD's that have been in boxes in storage on high shelves at the end of the new garage. Packed when we move here from San Francisco in 2018 and on high shelves since we built a new garage in 2020.
Of course they are in the far corner of the top 6 ft. deep by 12 ft. wide shelf.
So to get to the I had to move lots of HEAVY boxes with speaker drivers (Goodmans of England), transformers (Heyboer, Lundahl and a full set of hand made iron from some obscure winder in Holland for a 45 parafeed driving an 845 Parafeed).
In a word, heavy boxes up and down all for some two or three boxes, about 1000+ CDs.
BUT...
In the mix I found a HUGE box of tubes that I had been missing since we moved from Utah back to our home in San Francisco in 2007.
I knew I was missing a pair of NEW NOS, RCA Globe 10 in stapled original boxes that allow testing without opening the box. But, which I did not know I even had, three NOS WE 275A two of which are in their original boxes with lot numbers matching the tunes inside with no evidence of ever being opened!
So, if memory serves, a WE 275A is like a 2A3 with a 5V heater?
Might work in a 300B preamp that only drops less than 100 volts across the tube and very little current?
Still, a lot of work of a few boxes of old CDs and some old tubes.
"Reality cannot exist because it cannot keep up with the lies on the Internet."
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Sounds like those speaker drivers and transformers are quite a nuisance. I can help with that, no charge to an Asylum member. :)
I had the resources to build said amps when living in Utah in the mid 2000s at the time when I acquired all the parts.
A full set of Tribute iron for a 45 driving an 845 with parafeed driver and output, four double 'C' core per side and custom Heyboer power transformers for two PS per side, one for the driver and one for the output. Mercury vapor rectified, of course. All the tubes, including Taylor globe Jr. 866 for the driver, full sized 866 for the outputs.
Lundahl iron for the PS, oil caps, the works.
But what about a chassis? That was the hangup! The only part I could not do myself.
And to be honest, it would likely be too noisy for the 106dB horns I now own. Would be perfect for about 95dB to 100dB speakers, I'd guess.
I've heard this amp with Jack's Electropint Iron in my home and can say I sat on my couch and nearly cried with the builder took it back to ship to the new owner. (Sorry Ed, ya got sloppy seconds). ;-) I was running Goodmans of England 201's (EV T350 on top) in JELabs open baffles at the time and the match was perfect.
If I had any sense, I'd pay someone to build the amp for me. Not sure I still have the schematic though. Would not be that hard to figure out, excepting the PS (LCLCLCLCLCLCLCLCLC) :-)
Way to keep the house warm in winter. I have solar so electricity is not a problem!
"Reality cannot exist because it cannot keep up with the lies on the Internet."
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Have Fun and Enjoy the Music
"Still Working the Problem"
Minor point. I love the way the writer treated "data" as plural. Where or when did we go wrong? :-)
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