August 25th Ohio Meet

[Salt Peanuts]

I must have missed your for sale ad.

Of course, you may have bought one of yours from my buyer - do you have any with balanced output?

[Guest sacd lover]

Of course, you may have bought one of yours from my buyer - do you have any with balanced output?

Yes indeed .... I think I got thE BALANCED one from decur. But I dont remember for sure.

[Salt Peanuts]

Yes indeed .... I think I got thE BALANCED one from decur. But I dont remember for sure.

I can't remember who bought mine, either. I'm pretty sure that my unit was the first unit with balanced outs, though (I bugged Matt about it when I learned that Zapfilter can do balanced outs).

[darkless]

It's a pretty long story into how the amp came about so I'll give the short version. I wanted a top-flight headphone/pre-amp that would also have the ability to drive speakers at some point in the future. So the original plan was to build an amp geared toward using the 6528's as they are very netural sounding tubes and would have plenty of power to drive efficient speakers. The final design ended with an amp that has two gain stages the 1st stage is a single tube and the 2nd stage is two tubes. The 2nd stage can be turned on and off and is really only useful w/ the k1000 and speakers. I still do need to get binding posts added at some point.

Mikhail later discovered how to halve the number of tubes in the 2nd gain stage, so my balanced amp has 2x gain, 2x 2nd gain, 4x output tubes.