About the Stoetkit, I haven't received the one I purchased yet. The demo model was excellent, so I'm excited to get my kit. I imagine it will be around the first of the year, since I think it is coming from Heart in the Netherlands. When it arrives, I'll post a write-up and some photos of the assembly process.

Sounds like you're running something similar to Joe's JLTi tube-buffered gainclone. I found my gainclone works very well with my tube preamp too, although the bass is lacking at the very bottom end.

Here's a thought: a 4 channel gainclone for biamping purposes. Build the two HF channels a usual, but give the two LF channels about 20,000 uF of reservoir capacitance per channel. From what I've read, increasing power supply reservoir increases bass quality, but mids and HF suffers.

Gar.

• JLTi Tube Buffered Gainclone

You betcha on the parallel capacitance in the power supply. Large caps like that act like batteries, and allow high current surges in excess of what the supply can provide on a constant basis. This is one place where the adage "bigger is better" definitely applies.

Wayne

I agree, bigger is better for almost all amps. For some reason, it's not the case for the gainclone, I haven't found an explanation as to why the gainclone suffers in the mids and hi's with anything more than 1500 uF per rail, but it seems to be the word on the net.

Gar.

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