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Come along anyway Doc?

Always good to get out n about, hear new kit 'n stuff.

Elrog 300B's with (my) Nick's SET amp.

Hi Guys
Ali got in touch mentioned Owsters was next weeked?
Bit last minute but room on top for one more, Sat and Sunday.

Would be looking to bring Nick's 300B SET he built for me with my Elrog 300B output toobs.
Nice sounding combo.


Gaz.

More than likely!
Tend to drop in on the Valve projects and DIY parts more than the other bits I s'pose.

First time I've seen a thread like this on Audio-Talk.

Read this article earlier, possible food for thought. (take out the politics specific bit)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... cial-media

Greg, That was exactly my thinking when getting the amp, ..figured Nick's knows a bit about DIY ;) The amp (and the valves) were a 'do it once and do it right' kinda thing. Did my homework on the valves, was looking at the KRs based on Ali's reccy, but online folk on SET Asylum and AudioGon forums w...

Hi Paul, Dont think theres a UK distributor yet, I ordered mine direct from Thomas Mayer in Germany. Paid £850 the pair I think. Think December production is all accounted for? Good blog post on the valves construction here: http://vinylsavor.blogspot.co.uk/2016/11/news-from-elrog-tube-factory-2.htm...

Gaz did those valves make a difference, they look the part, and 'different' Nice looking amp must say... Aye Steve, They go well with the look of the amp, more modern I guess. Noticable step up sound wise from the EH Gold grids I had in before. The EH's didn't put a foot wrong, good sounding all ro...

http://i434.photobucket.com/albums/qq61/gazjamster/Kit%20pics/Nick%20Amp/20160930_184822_zpsv82ulzpl.jpg The Amp's really found it's sea-legs with some time on it; a bit of a "spendy punt" at the time, but hand on heart this thing makes you know why music is important and worth doing righ...

mainscablesrus wrote:I am not paying £500 for a valve, may as well buy some vintage champagne would get just as much joy! LOL

The ones I have stored will have to come out I guess!

True 'dat!
I'd snap them up if I could aford it, but just bought some TQ Ultra black so back on the toast n beans for a few months.

Hi David, Valves, How does a set of Western Electric 300Bs with only about 250 hours on then sound? 8) Dont need to tell you how good they are... Rare to find a set with as little use for such a good price. Guy on Artofsound is selling them, but he's someone I know and can mediate the sale for you. ...

The 300B amp Nick built for me runs 5687's, and been doing a bit of valve rolling and reckoned I've settled on Tung Sol JTL-5687 Black plate D-getters as the best sounding. Actually, best sounding by quite a bit...was well worth experimenting with different types. Tried other Tung-Sols...bronze plat...

Have one of my PCs set up exactly this way, good way to do it is to Dual Boot?
Two operating systems in 1 machine, switching on you woudl get the option to boot into XP or Win10.

Good info here:
http://www.tenforums.com/installation-s ... t-way.html

Interesting thread. I'll throw in my own hat into the ring, in a similar position to yourself and recently bought an acoustic. Summit else to think about. :) I was aware of the "usual suspect" Manufacturers, but read of issues with Gibsons, so took it that brand name wasnt an indication of...

Its a cool bit of kit.
Digital swiss army knife really.

Not using mine as a Pre anymore though, but it sounded great when I did.
Have a seperate Pre, just use the Transporter as a, uhm, transport now.