Posted by jeff p [ 207.200.22.156 ] on November 10, 2008 at 13:59:11:

In Reply to: how loud will 2 watts get? posted by jeff p on October 15, 2008 at 19:01:48:

well, i suspected 2 watts might not be quite enough.
i saw what i thought was a good deal on a decware se84csp (the preamp), sold the foreplay, then the guy mentioned he had a taboo amp he'd maybe sell. i looked around and a few weeks later we made a deal on the power amp.
the taboo is a 6watt SEP design by decware.
sounds real nice and the seller was nice enough to send me lots of extra tubes, various driver tubes, a few pairs of sv83 output tubes and a few pairs of EL84 also, two nice rectifier tubes as well.

with the sv83 output tubes, when i'm home alone and want to the listen loud the amp will usually end up clipping.
swapped in the EL84 and there it is. no clipping as loud as i want to play it and there is a little more bass too!!!
so setup now the power amp is mullard 12au7 driver, Hammond EL84 output tubes and Mullard 5u4g rectifier.

the one pi had a GR research tweeter (96db tweeter) with 1ohm resistor in series, it was a little hot.
i redid the crossover with an Obbligato cap, 1ohm resistor in series, and put some vifa (ac25) tweeters in there because they fit and madisound was sold out of the dx25. they sound pretty good though and only cost $11 each.

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