The Amp Garage

Thanks for the feedback, Matt. Could you elaborate on what you mean by 'unusual screen arrangement'? What is a more typical/common arrangement? The grid leaks were chosen as the max from the GE data sheet for 6L6GC tubes, and the grid stoppers were more or less arbitrarily chosen to be larger with t...

Hey all, I'm just entering the world of designing and building tube amps. I've been spending months digging through forums and Couch's and Merlin's works to learn what I can, and I think I'm finally ready to start designing. The design I'm working on is a 30W cathode biased push-pull amp using two 6...

Just for interest's sake, I found a thread on another forum about using horizontal TV tubes in audio amplifiers. There's some neat talk surrounding 6AV5, 6CD6GA, and 6JN6 tubes. I'll have to look into it more in the morning. http://www.diyaudio.com/forums/tubes-valves/78822-horizontal-tv-tubes-used-...

Hey all, I've been a lurker here for a few months now, while I've been putting together the know-how to design and build my first tube amplifier. I recently came across a big box of old tubes, and since I'm only familiar with a few various types of tubes common in guitar amplifier circuits, I was wo...