Or, “Solder Slingin’ Steve Rides Again” By Steve Graham Can success breed success? Like the efficacious DIY Phono Stage from 2018, I’m going have another go at a DIY project. This time it will be an EL84 push-pull integrated/power amplifier. The build will start with the Simple Push Pull board available from Tubelab.com. Of course, buying a board is the easy part. A chassis, tubes, transformers, jacks, speaker terminals, resistors, capacitors and all the other bits are needed. But hey, when it comes to details, I’m your guy! (You knew that already, right?) What I’m proposing is a build sponsored by a kind patron, the same as was done with the above-mentioned phono stage. I’m not asking someone to blindly jump in. Using transformers reclaimed from an old Heathkit, I’m building a prototype with the board you see my niece, the lovely Miss K, holding above. I’ll build my prototype into a decent chassis using all new parts (except for the aforementioned transformers). Once the prototype is built and debugged, I’ll generate a parts list and costing. Following that, I’ll solicit for a patron from among the WoS flock, someone willing to trust me to deliver an amplifier, even better than my prototype, paid for [...]
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