Stankie

1h

Soldering is easy as hell just make sure you get some flux

Stankie

1h

Soldering is easy as hell just make sure you get some flux

Orangutan

1h

I like it when you talk electrical to me engineer boy

turntout

2h

oh she is extremely social. she runs up to new people like a dog and gets on their laps and stuff. if they stay the night she lies on their chest at night.

we have had many none cat lovers come through here and they gotta learn to live with it. if you shut the door at night she will meow none stop, keeping u up. so u gotta let her in lol

Nort

1h

thats the type of cat to convert cat-haters into cat fans

Nort

1h

thats the type of cat to convert cat-haters into cat fans

Br00ses

1h

They have no appreciation for the work it takes to earn a stubborn cats love

I've been getting scratched trying to pet cats since I was 2

Br00ses

1h

The cat draws blood and you go

"omg look at u so grumpy"

And eventually they give up

Orangutan

1h

In the context of audio, they're amplification devices. They take a weak a***og audio signal and make it louder so you can actually hear the music through your speakers or headphones.

These days, we usually do that with tiny solid state amps. Your phone and pretty much every digital device with a speaker will have a solid state amp inside. Back in the day though, we obviously didn't have those, so we had to use more rudimentary technology.

A tube basically works like this: Inside the tube there are 3 main components, the cathode, the anode and the gird. The cathode is coated in a material that when heated, expels electrons into the air. These electrons are attracted to the anode, and so a flow of electrons is established between the cathode and the anode. Between the two sits the grid. Think of the grid as window blinds or a gate opening and shutting really fast. The weak audio signal is applied to the grid, and that controls exactly how and when it opens and closes, much like an audio signal applied to headphone or speaker drivers controls the way the drivers move (think of a subwoofer cone bouncing in and out).

Since the audio signal is controlling which electrons from the cathode reach the anode, it's actually shaping the electron flow into a much more powerful (louder) copy of the weak signal applied to the grid. The shaped signal that reaches the anode is the output of the tube.

People like to use tubes because they look cool and sound different from solid state amps. People like to use the terms "holographic" and lifelike.

Orangutan

1h

And to answer your first question

The wooden box thing is an output transformer-coupled tube amp

The top black box on the right is a hybrid tube amp (tube voltage stage, solid state output stage) with a dual 6J5 to 5670 socket mod

The box under that is a Modi 3E DAC (or digital to a***og converter)

The box under that with the orange numbers is an E50 II Dac

And the box under that with the knobs is a solid state L50 amp

And it's all sitting on top of a CD player

John Mauve

36m

I have to find a properly paid teacher job now or do sub teaching but being paid nearly twice as much because of my qualified teaching status

But I just wanna bum out for 15 years 😩

Stankie

35m

Have you tried winning big on Stake.com?

Stankie

2h

We have completely lost the plot

John Mauve

36m

I have to find a properly paid teacher job now or do sub teaching but being paid nearly twice as much because of my qualified teaching status

But I just wanna bum out for 15 years 😩

THEREALHNDRXXFREE

31m

What happen

I thought u was winning

THEREALHNDRXXFREE

58m

Did u notice like a crazy difference first times u used them vs just like playing outloud with ur phone?