Hello from the beautiful city of Lindau in Germany

[VinylSavor]

Thanks for the compliments!

 

[mullard88]

Hi VinylSavor,

I was in Lindau last summer when I had dinner in Villino.
I would love to be able to visit you when I visit Lindau again in the future.

 

[Cellindo]

New stuff... More info here: https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-6kn6-mono-amplifiers-part-2.html

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Very nice looking mono amplifiers. Really Cool !

 

[VinylSavor]

Hi VinylSavor,

I was in Lindau last summer when I had dinner in Villino.
I would love to be able to visit you when I visit Lindau again in the future.

Please do! I will show you a better restaurant hen. Villino is overrated

Thomas

 

[VinylSavor]

Very nice looking mono amplifiers. Really Cool !

Thanks Here are the latest amps. Single Ended 45 mono blocks with a second 45 driving the output tube. Thunderous 2W per channel. Weighing in at almost 40kg per mono block.

More pics here:

https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-new-45-drives-45-mono-amplifiers.html

 

[christoph]

Thanks Here are the latest amps. Single Ended 45 mono blocks with a second 45 driving the output tube. Thunderous 2W per channel. Weighing in at almost 40kg per mono block.

More pics here:

https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-new-45-drives-45-mono-amplifiers.html

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Just beautiful

 

[bonzo75]

Thomas, pnoe and aer aside, what are the main full range speakers your clients are playing the 46 and 45 on?

 

[VinylSavor]

Thomas, pnoe and aer aside, what are the main full range speakers your clients are playing the 46 and 45 on?

Hi!

My amps are used with a wide variety of speakers some of them are (no particular order, just those which come to my mind)

Avantagarde Acoustics
Focal Utopia
Cessaro
PureAudioProject
Azzolina
Haigner
Goto
JBL Everest
Voxativ
Altec
Lumen White
Wolf von Langa
Tannoy
Klipsch


Also various rather 'mainstream brands' like B&W, Sonus Faber and various DIY or custom made speakers.

I am sure I forgot quite a few

Thomas

 

[bonzo75]

Yes I was referring to the lowest 1 and 2 watt ones.

Btw, if someone wanted more power like 7 watts with the 46, does a push pull or class B sound good at all or is one better of focusing on a different tube

 

[VinylSavor]

Yes I was referring to the lowest 1 and 2 watt ones.

Some people use low wattage amps with rather insensitive speakers. Listening habits are very different. For example the Lumen White I mentioned is used with a 300B amp with 8W. Some people don't listen very loud and sit close to their speakers and don't need much power so they can use the 45 or 46 even with speakers which are considered unsuitable

Btw, if someone wanted more power like 7 watts with the 46, does a push pull or class B sound good at all or is one better of focusing on a different tube

To get ore power from he 46 requires Class B operation which is very different. I have not tried it and would not expect it to perform anywhere close to the Class A amps. I always recommend to use the appropriate tube rather than prying more power from low power tubes by Class B operation or paralleling many of them

 

[mullard88]

Thank you VynilSavor.

 

[VinylSavor]

Another peek into the workshop: A pair of 300B mono blocks using silver wound on finemet cores interstage and output transformers. These are the signal units, power supplies in the same style still to be finished. All black this time. More on my blog : https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-black-300b-mono-amplifiers-part-1.html

 

[Tango]

Beautiful indeed.

 

[Folsom]

Black might be might favorite yet.

 

[Audiophile Bill]

Another peek into the workshop: A pair of 300B mono blocks using silver wound on finemet cores interstage and output transformers. These are the signal units, power supplies in the same style still to be finished. All black this time. More on my blog : https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2020/08/the-black-300b-mono-amplifiers-part-1.html

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Gosh very sexy looks.

Thomas - your thoughts on the silver Finemet transformers in terms of sonics versus the silver Lundahls and versus the Tangos?

Best.

 

[VinylSavor]

Thomas - your thoughts on the silver Finemet transformers in terms of sonics versus the silver Lundahls and versus the Tangos?

Those sliver finemets are custom made for me and are definitely in a league of their own

 

[VinylSavor]

Deutsche Elektronenröhren Manufaktur GmbH has an anniversary today. 4 years of making ELROG tubes.

https://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2020/08/deutsche-elektronenrohren-manufaktur.html

 

[VinylSavor]

10Y Line stage with matching finish to the black 300B mono blocks.

 

[Audiophile Bill]

10Y Line stage with matching finish to the black 300B mono blocks.

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Beautiful build!

Thomas - did you ever try a Finemet TVC?

Best.

 

[VinylSavor]

Thomas - did you ever try a Finemet TVC?

Yes:

http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2014/11/10y-line-preamplifier-with.html
http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2014/11/silverfinemet-10y-line-stage-follow-up.html
http://vinylsavor.blogspot.com/2016/04/silver-10y-line-stage.html