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Re: [Amps] Want to build first amp

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Subject: Re: [Amps] Want to build first amp
From: "Ian White, G3SEK" <G3SEK@ifwtech.co.uk>
Reply-to: "Ian White, G3SEK" <g3sek@ifwtech.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:17:40 +0000
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Jan Erik Holm wrote:
GS35b costs MUCH less then 8877´s or 3CX1200 tubes.
For a 160-6m amp I would try a GS35b any day.

Me too.

Don't ever get sucked into using a particular tube or transformer, just because it's free. Maybe I've been unlucky, but I have always found that to be a big mistake! After building the whole project around a key component that wasn't actually the right one for the job... it didn't work, or certainly not as well as I'd hoped for.

It is always far better to *choose* the key components you really need... and if you can get them for free, then that's a bonus. But free components should never be allowed to dictate the whole project.


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