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Fundamental rule if there's two guys there: No talking until you both reach the hand basins. Two women? A man and a woman? - I have no data on those cases!

Following on from above, here's a diagram for those who love diagrams: This the calculated response of a basic 8 Ohm M2, driven from an 8 ohm amp tap (based on my VM), stepping through all the attenuation steps from full volume down to nominally -31 db. 'db inc' is the difference from the...

Hi Gene, I looked at that before, to try to work out a set of values to buy from typical Chinese sellers - see the first diagram. I went for 5 Ohm at R8 and the diagram shows R7 staying at 33 Ohm. Theres no tonal consequence (less than 0.1db at any frequency) but it shifts the attenuation down...

Hi Gene, Id like to see those! are you still able to point a link to those comments? J

Aluminium is all good, whether its die-cast or extruded. Its about 5x as conductive as steel, and probably 2x as thick in a given application, so 10x better. So between those two AL cases, it all comes down to the thickness of the material and the surface area. My belief is that the...

That's a shame! I would have looked very nice Im happy with the Hammond styles for mine, and the box 'lid' is the base which looks a bit better i think due to the slight taper of the sides. These boxes also give you continuous Aluminium for what is then the top and sides, to get max conduction...

Hi @Gert-Jan van der Heiden . That looks like a really nice build, clean and simple and I like the 3d coil-mount gadget. Just on the order of stages, yes you can reorder them and it makes no significant difference. A little history.... At the start of the thread, you can see the previous...

Just throwing out some thoughts: So if im following this right, there's plenty of volume available, but a pure volume change is wanted for solo/rythym transitions without changing tone? or maybe both are already driving the amp so more front end push doesn't add volume? Also, noted: the desire...

Yes you should do it! (but keep the day job!). You'll see how easy it is to build the perfect attenuator. BTW, if you do, a voice coil is not the right thing to use in our design. A simple air-coil of the right value and low resistance is the go.

ok, I can have a go at working that out. Another reason not to go down to 20ga is to control resistance, which we don't really want in the coils.

Yep! that's the key question! The classic issue with these amps is the rectifier that supplies the heaters that make these glow. Note V1 is inside a metal screen.

Hi @Gene Ballzz , I think the case looks good for the basic versions, given some planning . Would it need some components on the top and on the bottom in order to fit? It's not huge in surface real-estate. On the coils, I think both those values are within range of the sweet spot sych that...

Hi @lwgramith , Im very happy that you got it going! My hunch from the various readings is it was some kind of short to ground, maybe between stages 1 and 2.

hi @lwgramith , you're in good hands with Gene. If a problem does not quickly become apparent, I'd suggest to do a little temporary rewiring and one more set of tests. Test 3 check that everything that should be 'grounded' (ie connected to the sleeve lugs of the jacks, though it's not a real...