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Re: ASL Tulip amp mods [message #10662 is a reply to message #10661] Sun, 08 August 2004 08:45 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Well Ron I personally have not heard the amp and it's hard to make recommendations w/o hearing. The Audio club here had a guy who liked it but he only heard it stock. Remmember that the Tulip is input transformer coupled. I guess to increase gain since they put out 3.5 watts from just a driver stage and the output stage. From the little that I know input trans must have a very high step-up ratio to load a single tube; however that requires high turns ratio which could compromise high end response.
The mods I have heard of include:
VH Audio V-cat Teflon coupling Caps
Riken Carbon Film grid-stopper resistors
Sonicap Power Supply filter cap by-passes
IXYS Ultra-fast soft recovery diodes in the power supply.
This should help I hope; the unit is supposed to sound real sweet with these mods.J.R.

 
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