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|25th October 2004, 07:22 PM
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cheap but good SET amplifier?
I've taken a lot of time off from DIYing amps and such... but am currently not happy with my standard receiver for music. I dealt with headphones for a long time, but am tired of that, so I want to get my speakers up and running with new life from a better sounding amp.
I've heard a lot about digital amps- how warm and "tube-like" they are, so I thought I'd build or buy one of them. But, why spend money and time building something that is only going to sound like tubes... Like my father always said, "why buy something that is going to be LIKE something else... just get what you want to start with." So, I figured I'd just do that.
I saw that Bottle head was re-releasing its S.E.X. kit, which would be nice, but $400 is WAY too much for me to spend right now on a 2W amp. I am looking to spend more like $100 or so right now...
My main speakers are Klipsch RF-3's, which are 98dB @1W/1m. I am actually about 1m away, too, so no issues there. I measured the voltage across the speakers under my normal listening conditions and found that they were drawing around 0.1V continuous with 0.3V peaks. Not much... so I can easily get away with a low-powered amp, which is what I'd like. Less than 3W would be plenty, even allowing a little overhead.
I found a couple of amps that look as though they might fit... but would kind of like some comments/pointers that would be useful to know. If possible, I would also like to have the amp adapted for use for headphones whenever I wish, like the S.E.X. kit is. That was a very good point of that amp, but the price killed it for me. I am getting rid of all my other headphone amp stuff, and I'd like one simple SET amp for my speakers that would also work with my headphones (Sennheiser HD580, 300-ohm). How might I adapt most transformer coupled amps to run these?
I found a few amps that looked ok, but if there are anymore I didn't see, please point them out. The ones I saw are:
the Miniblock
half-watt 6EM7 amp
and one here on the forums- Morse's 6BM8 SEP amp. Not SET, but I suppose it might work...
The half-watt I am not sure about. I wouldn't use the power tranny outputs, but I am concerned about it not having enough power.
Any thoughts, comments, or other suggestions are welcome. Thanks all!
EDIT: Forgot to mention... simplicity also highly preferred. I would actually prefer a design using dissimilar triodes as shown in the links.
|25th October 2004, 07:38 PM
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Hi There,
This is going to sound hard, but not meant to.
My suggestion? Save your money until you have the $400. Halfway decent iron for an SET amp that'll give you 2 watts per channel will cost $100 alone. That is, about $35 for the power transformer, and between $25 and $35 apiece for the output iron. Decent output tubes, if you want to do triode, go for the 2A3 for about $50 a pair. Otherwise, the 6BQ5/EL84 is decent for SE. They go for about $17 to $24 a pair. Then a decent 12AX7 (some wil shout "NO! NO! The 12AU7!). But we are using one dual triode to drive both output tubes. That will be another 10-30 bucks, depending on whether you want OK sound or very good sound.
So look to spend a total of about $230 for parts you buy yourself... oh, not counting the chassis and hole punching and... time.
Hope this helps.
Gabe CGV Electronics
Home of the CGV-300B amplifier on a budget
|27th October 2004, 12:50 AM
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Magnavox SE 8303 console amp!
Hi needtubes,
Here is a link regarding some Magnavox console 6BQ5 amplifiers.
I think that this could be a good place to start, playing and experimentation with various system configuration is half of the fun.
I have heard a few of the PP Magnavox units over the years, and I liked it.
I hope this will help, it should be fairly cheap when you track one down.
Good Luck
Norris Wilson
PS. I like your moniker, for I think I need tubes too.
|5th November 2004, 07:02 AM
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Location: San Jose
How about a single-tube OTL amp?!
At less than 1 watts into 8 ohms, your amp needs only 8V peak-to-peak, so the main issue would be getting the 1A (p-p) of current. You'll need a big tube like a 6336A, so the power tranny will be big, but that's the cheaper of the iron parts...
You will need a power resistor for the plate load and a decent output cap (low voltage, so it's not super expensive!)
If you can settle for 1/2 a watt per side, then run each of the individual triodes one per channel. Notice that the gain is low but just enough for a direct feed from a line-level source like CD player. Your stereo amp may end up being a single tube...
Other regulator tubes like the 6080 and 7233 might be good candidates for the same topology.
Have fun!
|5th November 2004, 07:24 AM
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Location: Chicago
check out www.decware.com. They have a kit version of the zen that is about $399. It is an amazing amp.
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|5th November 2004, 08:56 PM
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Location: Denmark
Why not just try Fred's Miniblok? The parts are cheap, and the amp is easy to build. You can always buy a bigger/better output transformer later. But even SE amps with small transformers sound fine to me...
Best regards,
Mikkel C. Simonsen
|5th November 2004, 11:01 PM
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A Decware ZEN clone (which we have dubbed Mulligans -- Bogus ZEN -> Bogey -> Mulligan) can be built using something like these vintage RCA OPTs -- average sell price so far is about $30.
(disclaimer: i have everything to do with this auction, me & my wife are planetsofta)
And i have a ton of similar, but nicer, European iron. A friend recently built an amp inspired by the Dec ZEN but with an ELL80 (2 EL95s in a single envelope). The OPTs were quite small so bass is limited, but everywhere else it sounds quite good (he is very surprised at how good)
excluding the fact that i gave him the donor (out of a Normende console -- OPTs often called Telefunken -- i'm accumulating favours towards kitchen cabinets), he has $30-40 CAD into the whole amp.... and a lot of that was going out and buying a new Hammond chassis instead of heading to Value Village and finding a suitable "round" chassis.
With attention to Frugal-phile(tm) directives a $100 USD triode strapped pentode SE should be very doable.
community sites t-linespeakers.org, frugal-horn.com, frugal-phile.com ........ commercial site planet10-HiFi
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Washington, Dec 28 (ANI): Ninety-four percent of Israeli high school pupils access social media via their cell phones during class, a new study has revealed.
The study conducted by the University of Haifa said that only four percent reported not using their cell phones at all during class.
It was also found that in classes with more permissive teachers, cell phone use was lower than in classes where the teacher imposed strict discipline.
"The students use their mobile phones in various ways - to surf the Internet and access social media, to listen to music, take photos, play games, and send text messages and photos," the researchers said.
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2) Process ACL Fellow nominations. Nominations that are entered by October 1, 2012 will be considered before December.
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I have a problem with my basement. My basement is freezing cold all year round. In the winter time even with the air ducts open the temperature is around 18C (65F) while the upstairs is 21C (71F) which is an alright temperature for the air but the floor is around 14C-16C (58F-61F). In the summer time the temperature drops even more. Even with the A/C off the whole basement is even cooler than winter. The temperature I took today was 16C (61F) and the floor was down to 12C (54F). My upstairs is around 23C (74F).
The basement is completely finished. My floors are concrete in the storage area where the furnace is but the rest of the floor is laminate floor except for the washroom that is ceramic. The room is divided into one huge room, a den, washroom and storage room. The ceiling is a drop ceiling. Not sure if that makes a difference and I've added extra about 2 ft (double thick) insulation around the edge because I had noticed that the top floor was cold in the winter time.
When I did my home inspection we determined that the insulation on all the walls in the basement run 2/3 down the wall but not all the way to the floor. I was told this wouldn't make much of a difference. Cold air returns exist in each room and each room has a heating vent with the large room having 3.
If you have any ideas how I can get the basement warmer, please let me know.
Whoever told you no insulation on concrete would not make a difference, needs a new profession.
Insulation, heating ducts and a proper furnace with air flow and return air, balance the whole house. Floor insulation is important and you need to move the heated air from the upper floors to the lower levels. An HRV would assist this greatly.
I am not sure what type of flooring you have at the moment. When I read this forum, I understand that the floors are concrete. The concrete in your basement will always be cold. Reason towards this is because the concrete hits directly towards the dirt. Dirt is usually cold. The only thing I would be able to recommend you is gold underpadding with carpet.
This is all the knowledge I have at the moment. I hope this helps you..
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Insulation should run all the way to the floor on the outside walls. Builders are cheap and save dollars by not doing it.
More importantly, the flooring should be over a properly insulated sub floor. I love the Dri Core product. It provides insulation warming the floors as well as negates problems you will have with water escapes or small water intrusion.
Your furnace ducting should be properly ballanced to move the air throughout the house. There are adjustments to make seasonally. As cold air tends to drop while warm air rises.
Hope this helps.
As per the other responses, the heat loss is probably through the basement floor. The full height insulation would make a difference, but, the main heat loss in the exterior wall is above grade or close to grade.
I would use one of the following products:
- Dicore..good ventilation, no insulation
- Insulfloor- good insulation, moderate ventilation
- Amdry- good insulation and ventilation- Drawback- 21/4" thick and the most expensive insulated sub floor system
To get rid of dampness, I would use a humidex system....This is an 8" by 8" by 8' box that exhausts moist air to the exterior from under the floor. It is equipped with a humistat.
As previously suggested, I would also balance your forced air system.
If you do all of the above, this should solve your problem......Drawback...not cheap to fix!
The problem that you have is not unique I see it constantly. I get very up set when I see the stupidity of some of the so called experts on this site. Plumbing and other skilled trades giving advice on stuff they really have no clue about outside their profession.
After 0ver 40 yrs. in Cabinetry, woodworking and construction I am not amazed anymore of the lack of knowledge of some contractors.
The Ontario building code does not allow anymore to insulate 4' down the wall.
The only person that has a clue about this problem is John, Furnace's don't come on in the summer and HRV's recirculate the warm air with the co;d out side air to temper it, if you take musty air from the basement it can be distributed throughout the house Go to Venmarr HRVs and check it out.
The problem in basement renos people want to do it cheap ......This is exactly what happens.
You need to build in a thermo break that means using ridge foam on the walls and floor then adding Roxul in the walls Dry core provides R 2-3 value this is a joke when we are putting in R27 in a wall.
When basement leaks it floods at least 3-4 "cement floors are rarely floated by lazer do they even have a drain? So much for drycore.
Removing the wall and floors and isolating moist cool air is the only option any thing else .....you are burning more money.
Sorry, Paul from Justice Construction, I called you John.
It seems like you are experiency an air flow issue in your home depending on how old the house is.
Technically speaking the basement is always a few degrees cooler than the 1st and 2nd floors, but if the basement is where you spend most of your time, a temporary solution would be to close off the extra vents in the rooms that are not being used often and see if that helps.
I think your word "stupidity" is a bit harsh as most people who are pros in one trade can certainly have skilled opinions in other fields as well.
As a professional master electrician, we can also be trained in heating / cooling, automation and controls so as to balance cool and warm areas equally inside buildings. Most people with over 25 years in their careers do other trainings to "top up" their skill set and diversity.
Knowledge and professionalism and the willingness to help others is the key to a successful business. I never claim to know everything and generally keep out of areas where I have no knoweldge, but certainly prepared to offer opinions on items I have experience in and trained on.
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A new poll suggests that American Christians (unlike Muslims) are likely to put their faith before their country.
Archive | November, 2011
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A WA Liberal MP has claimed Australians are unknowingly being converted to Islam by eating Halal meat.
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Former lieutenant governor and education commissioner Frank Brogan just moved one step closer to being the state university system's next chancellor. Members of the Board of Governors that oversees the 11 state universities just selected Brogan, Florida Atlantic University's president since 2003, as one of four finalists to be interviewed in Tampa on Friday.
The BOG search committee, during a conference call, also selected FSU associate professor Steve MacNamra, a Capitol veteran who served as former House Speaker John Thrasher's chief of staff. The other two are Roderick Chu, former chancellor for Ohio state university system; and Tom Snyder,
president of Ivy Tech Community College, the nation's largest singly-accredited statewide community college system and the largest institution of higher education in Indiana. The full BOG is expected to name a chancellor Friday afternoon following the interviews.
"This is a very important job, as we all know, and we need to pick the best person for the time and circumstances we face," said Board of Governors chairwoman Sheila McDevitt.
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Britons would not have a problem voting for a Prime Minister who was gay, according to Nick Clegg and Ed Miliband.
Mr Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, said people would judge a potential PM on their ability to lead rather than their sexuality.
The Labour leader said the world had "changed a lot" and he expected a gay PM in the future.
Clegg and Mr Miliband were responding to questions from Gay Times readers while the PM wrote an open letter for the latest edition of the publication, which will be published on Wednesday.
Asked if the public would accept a gay PM, Mr Clegg said: "Yes and why not?
"Being gay doesn't affect how you work, how you interact with people or how you make decisions.
"I'm confident that the British people would judge him or her on their ability to lead and be a good prime minister and not on who they choose to share their life with."
Mr Miliband said: "If you think about the way the world has changed in the last 20 years since I was at college, we've seen the repeal of Section 28, we've seen civil partnerships, the lowering of the age of consent, equal marriage and that has been driven by change in social attitudes and that is why I think absolutely it's foreseeable to have a gay prime minister."
Mr Clegg was asked how he would react if one of his children was gay.
He said: "I would have no issues at all if one of my boys told me that he liked another boy.
"It's not a choice, it's who you are and I would love my boys regardless of their sexuality. I just hope that some day coming out to your parents is not going to be something you dread but something you will remember fondly."
Mr Miliband added: "I would love them equally as much."
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A new feature has just reached the Windows Phone marketplace which allows you to download an app or game's XAP file (pronounced zap), which is a container that holds all the files for an app. You could think of XAPs as being installers, like CABs from back in the Windows Mobile days.
Last week I let a friend borrow my LG Optimus 7 and returned to my old HTC Touch Pro 2; a fantastic device running Windows Mobile 6.5. It had been reset to the default settings, but I still have some CAB files from back when I was still in love with WM, so I just copied them across to my memory card & installed them. Simple.
Now those with Windows Phone 8 devices will have the ability to do just the same. The web marketplace has already been updated to display this change, showing a link for downloading the app/game.
As a developer, I worry about the copyright issues this new feature might bring, cant people just download anything & install it?
The answer is yes and no. Anyone can download the files, but the apps must be installed through the marketplace, which checks for a valid license before it will go through with it. Its reported that free apps will simply install regardless of previous purchase & paid apps with trials will also install as trials, but there is no way to install a paid app without having paid for it. I presume that if you try to do so, the marketplace app will ask you to pay.
Another issue is that XAPs are pretty much just ZIP files with the extension renamed to 'XAP' but Microsoft seems to have tinkered with the encryption they use. Earlier I downloaded a XAP (one of my own) and tried renaming the file to see what happened, but when I looked inside the ZIP file, it showed up as empty. I wonder how long it will be before someone tries to crack that….
Anyway, I think this is a nice addition to Windows Phone 8 feature set & would love it if they could add it to WP7.8 (whenever that may appear). There is more information about installing XAPs from the SD card on the WindowsPhone website here.
What do you think about downloading and installing XAPs manually, drop us a comment & let us know!


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Trial of Osteoporosis Intervention Strategies in Hip Fracture Patients
This study has been completed.
University of Alberta
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
First received: August 25, 2005
Last updated: December 15, 2011
Last verified: December 2011
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Detailed Description:
The objective of this study is to determine if an intervention with a fracture manager to arrange bone densitometry after a hip fracture is more effective in diagnosing and treating osteoporosis when compared to "usual care". "Usual care" consists of no intervention to arrange bone mineral density (BMD) testing or therapy other than what normally occurs in the community. The investigators postulate that a fracture manager will be more effective in getting BMD done and in starting appropriate therapy.
|Procedure: bone densitometry (DEXA) Drug: alendronate or risedronate
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: None (Open Label)
|Official Title:
|Randomized Trial of Osteoporosis Intervention Strategies in Hip Fracture Patients
Resource links provided by NLM:
MedlinePlus related topics: Fractures Hip Injuries and Disorders OsteoporosisU.S. FDA Resources
Further study details as provided by University of Alberta:
Primary Outcome Measures:
- the number of patients who get a BMD and the number who are started on active osteoporosis therapy
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|January 2002
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|April 2006
All hip fracture patients in the Edmonton area will be screened for eligibility (mini-mental status >20, not on active osteoporosis pharmacologic therapy). All patients will have informed consent obtained. Patients will be randomized to 2 groups:
- Group 1: Active intervention. The fracture manager will arrange for bone densitometry (DEXA) to be done 3-6 months after the fracture. If the patient meets standard criteria for osteoporosis, therapy with a bisphosphonate (alendronate or risedronate) will be instituted by the study physicians.
- Group 2: Usual care. Patients will receive basic information about calcium and vitamin D and osteoporosis and told to follow up with their family doctor. At 6 months, patients will be contacted to determine if they have had a BMD done or started on active (drug) osteoporosis therapy. If not, the fracture manager will arrange the BMD and if appropriate therapy will be started by the study physicians.
All patients will be followed for 1 year. The primary endpoints are the number of patients who get a BMD and the number who are started on active osteoporosis therapy.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|50 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ages 50 or over; males or females.
- Reside in the community or have access to bone densitometry
- Hip fracture
- Patient can consent or proxy consent available
- No contraindications to bisphosphonates
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient refuses consent process
- Already receiving active drug therapy for osteoporosis other than calcium and vitamin D
- Dementia or delirium
- Pathological fracture
- Chronic corticosteroid therapy
Contacts and Locations
Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00136058
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00136058
|Canada, Alberta
|University of Alberta
|Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T6G2S2
Sponsors and Collaborators
University of Alberta
Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research
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|Donald W Morrish, MD, PhD
|University of Alberta
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ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 21, 2017
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|NCT00136058 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|August 25, 2005
|Last Updated:
|December 15, 2011
Keywords provided by University of Alberta:
hip fracture
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hip Fractures
Bone Diseases, Metabolic
Bone Diseases
Musculoskeletal Diseases
Femoral Fractures
Fractures, Bone
Wounds and Injuries
Hip Injuries
Leg Injuries
Risedronate Sodium
Bone Density Conservation Agents
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Calcium Channel Blockers
Membrane Transport Modulators
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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- Because if they leave something out, you might get the impression that their lives could actually be more boring. 6-14-2016 10:44pm
- I hate the people that need to post every day. They are bragging look at me. I went here and there and wore this and saw this . It is gross 6-14-2016 10:46pm
- Why are you so miserable? 6-14-2016 10:50pm
- Some people get joy out of sharing every last thing with others. Others (like me and I'm guessing, you) don't. Just two different ways to live life. I wouldn't look at Facebook if...(more) 6-14-2016 11:01pm


text: | Whether it's Mother Goose, the tales of the Brothers Grimm, even the parables of Christ, you might say the human mind is hard-wired to respond to stories. In fact story telling may be the oldest art form. Serena Altschul explores our oral tradition at those Woodstocks of words, storytelling festivals.