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  1. I needed a medium voltage single supply GRHV, not sure if that already exists but if it didn't it does now. Some day I will get better at layout :/ Kerry could have made this half the size. 

    50x91mm, just 3 vias in total so I'll claim that was my intention all along as to why the board is so big but I'll take any suggestions how to shrink it

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  2. Stay safe, Brent. You may identify with being white but these white supremacist shitbags are even getting DNA tests, which ironically prove that they are not as white as they think they are.

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  3. “All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births in death.” :) 

  4. 14 hours ago, JimL said:

    Given that the gain of the cross-coupled circuit is the same as the standard cascode, I calculated the gain as about 41-42 dB, and an output impedance per side of close to 147 kilohm, using the estimated rp and gain for the low current used in the SRX circuit. That's with my 250 kilohm plate resistors rather than the original 300k.  If you use the standard published 12AT7 parameters, you'll get a slightly different answer.

     

    The input capacitance of the input circuit is low because of the cascode connection.  The issue is the high output impedance of the input stage into the output tube Miller capacitance.  With the 6SN7GTA/B, the Miller capacitance is about 84 pf, and the circuit rolls off above 11-12 kHz.  There is about 14 dB feedback at low frequencies, and so the calculated closed loop gain rolls off above about 53 kHz, which is what I measured.

     

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    You're not getting the point. Yes, everything can be "true" if you assume it to be true. You're simply assuming it's a cascode and then using a cascode calculator to get all your numbers. 

    I found the schematic you're referring to in the Birt article you sent (thanks), and it's a totally different circuit from the SRX. This actually is a cascode, with some interesting voltage divider grid biasing action. Notice how it is a common cathode into a common base. I will try to simulate this in spice as well when I get the chance.

    birt schem.pdf

  5. I just spent awhile trying to find the article, can't find it so clearly it is a very popular and well-regarded article in textbooks and circuits today. :P This is fun, I love playing devil's advocate even though it is clearly not a cascode. What do you think the open loop gain and output impedance of the front end of the SRX is, disregarding and with Miller capacitance? I'm going to put it into spice and do a comparison with a real cascode.

  6. The definition of a cascode is a common emitter into a common base (or the tube equivalent), please tell me where you find that in the SRX.

    4 minutes ago, JimL said:

    The SRX input  IS a cascoded LTP, AKA Hedge circuit, with cross-coupling per D.R. Birt's article "Self-Balancing Push-Pull Circuits" June 1960 in Wireless World to improve balance for a single-ended input.  The T2 also has cascoded LTP/diff amp input but CCS tail and plate loads but w/o cross-coupling.

     

    srx schem.pdf

  7. What started as a spoof and thumbing our noses at Schiit (not literally) and the T8000 is starting to turn into a real amp! Thanks to Kevin for helping me not be an idiot, this time around at least. Gordian knots be damned!

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