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I love tube amps. Would like to start building my own. Could you please share your favorite resources if any? Thanks.

• vibrolax 7y ago
  Did you want to make hifi amps, or guitar amps? The electronics knowledge and construction techniques are nearly 100% transferrable, but the design lore diverges, and the online DIY communities can be very diverse. I've built a dozen or so guitar amps, preamps, etc. I don't personally build hifi stuff, but I love John Brodskie's tubecad.com for the analysis of classic circuit topologies, and tons of original ideas. He offers nice looking PCB's for preamps and power supplies. For me it was useful to determine what I wanted to build first, and find the related online sites and communities.
  • pthreads 7y ago
    HiFi. Short anecdote: I once went to a tube amp repair class. After about 5 minutes I realized this was only for guitar amps. I just pretended to be a guitar player and sat through. It was awesome though. Anyway the TubeCAD site looks very interesting. Thanks.
• opencl 7y ago
  Pete Millet's site is a pretty good resource, he's posted a lot of different designs ranging from preamps to power amps to headphone amps. His "Starving Student" design was my first foray into building a tube amp about a decade ago, though that one is really a tube/transistor hybrid and it's designed for headphones but I used it as both a speaker and headphone amp. http://www.pmillett.com/ http://www.pmillett.com/