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YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

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Don

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 3:23 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

kingman wrote:Monoblocks in Tha House!!!!!...Arrived in good shape...TUBE TIME!!!!!
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Quit bragging! ](*,) ](*,) Time to put them in the Kingman museum yet? :shock: :lol:

Seriously, congratulations and Merry Christmas to you and Tammy. :D Give us a follow up on how you like them. 8)
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RIP Bill D.
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kingman

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:08 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

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In reality, it only matters what it sounds like to YOU!!!
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TNRabbit

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 5:40 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Alex, can I get my 4 amp bottoms now??
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From FrankieD's lips to your ears: Sunfire: a quiet box of endless power.

Sunfire TG-IV/400~7 Amp
Carver SD/A-360 CDP
Benchmark DAC-1
Sony SACD/DVD-A
Active bi-amp: Ashly XR-1001 & 2 Rane PEQ-15s
Main: HotRodded AL-IIIs
Sub: Klipsch RT-12d
Center: Sunfire CRS-3c
Surround: Sunfire CRS-3 (x 2)
OconeeOrange wrote:"Gary likes to play it 'loud' as do I. His system begs you turn it up until you die"

RIP WIlliam B. Dibble, 1948-2012. I'll miss you my friend.
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Zoot Horn

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 6:05 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Don't worry guys,,it'll take Wayne at leat a year before he even puts tubes in em' :-#
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kingman

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 7:20 pm

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Alex, can I get my 4 amp bottoms now??
...NO........ :lol:
In reality, it only matters what it sounds like to YOU!!!
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Don

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:05 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Hey Wayne,

If the left channel doesn't work on one of them, then Alex took my advice and swapped mine for yours. :lol: :lol: :lol:
To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.
— Thomas Paine

"Try not to become a man of success, but rather a man of value" Albert Einstein

"Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them". Charlie Reese

"The problems we face today exist because the people who work for a living are outnumbered by those who vote for a living." Brad Shurett


RIP Bill D.
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kingman

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:24 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Just ordered tubes....yea George...TUBES!!!!!
In reality, it only matters what it sounds like to YOU!!!
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mbskeam

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:30 pm

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Just ordered tubes....yea George...TUBES!!!!!


what?????
Mbskeam


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CARVER: TFM-75, TFM-45(3), SD/A-490T
SUNFIRE: Tube pre
2 sets of ALS'3, set of SILVERS, set of PLATS
AUDIOCONTROL: phase coupled activator
KENWOOD: BASIC M2a (2)

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kingman

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:34 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

what?????
...sorry Mike...didn't plan ahead... ](*,) ](*,) ](*,)
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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 8:46 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

no,.....
what brand?...... :lol: :lol: :lol:
Mbskeam


#1 BLACK BEAUTY's made by the man, the myth, the legend Bob Carver
CARVER: TFM-75, TFM-45(3), SD/A-490T
SUNFIRE: Tube pre
2 sets of ALS'3, set of SILVERS, set of PLATS
AUDIOCONTROL: phase coupled activator
KENWOOD: BASIC M2a (2)

“Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever.”
― Aristophanes

The only thing I'll feel......will be the RECOIL
Necronomicon Ex-Mortis....... Klaatu Barada Nikkto
"We should seek the greatest value of our action"
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kingman

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:01 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Shuguang Beijing 6N2 ....Sovtek EL84 Power Vacuum Tube
8-[
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Zoot Horn

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Post Fri Dec 23, 2011 9:10 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

pic's or it didn't happen
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Post Sat Dec 24, 2011 10:37 am

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Congratulations, they look great.
Tinpan

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TNRabbit

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Post Mon Jan 02, 2012 9:40 pm

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

TNRabbit wrote:Alex, can I get my 4 amp bottoms now??


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TNRabbit
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From FrankieD's lips to your ears: Sunfire: a quiet box of endless power.

Sunfire TG-IV/400~7 Amp
Carver SD/A-360 CDP
Benchmark DAC-1
Sony SACD/DVD-A
Active bi-amp: Ashly XR-1001 & 2 Rane PEQ-15s
Main: HotRodded AL-IIIs
Sub: Klipsch RT-12d
Center: Sunfire CRS-3c
Surround: Sunfire CRS-3 (x 2)
OconeeOrange wrote:"Gary likes to play it 'loud' as do I. His system begs you turn it up until you die"

RIP WIlliam B. Dibble, 1948-2012. I'll miss you my friend.
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Post Fri Jan 27, 2012 12:39 am

Re: YOUR CF Tube Amp Build Progress

Woohoo ! Finished ours.
Works like a champ. :D
Just have the name plate and the finish plate on the front to put on.
Pics coming soon as I get them on.

I did do the 12ax7 mod. Sounds great. Thanks Alex for posting the instructions for it.
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