Class A 100 watts!! Mayfly might want to stay away!!

[Death by Uberschall]

Ok, this is really bad or really bad ass!!!!  :headbang1:

Class A 100 watts with a single 883 tube!!!

I think those are 6L6 tubes being used as driver tubes.

http://www.preuss-n-koenig.de/index.php/en/

 

[bagman67]

 

[mayfly]

Yea!  I've seen those transmission tubes used in guitar amps before!  Usually in push/pull designs mind you...

 

[bagman67]

So, just because I know bupkis about electronics, would that rig be expected to distort similarly to one of your EL84-powered amps (maybe not in terms of timbre, but just in terms of a tendency to distort)? 


And something about that thing's visual impact suggests it would pretty much blow your head off if you stood in front of the cab it's driving - is that a reasonable conclusion?

 

[Nightclub Dwight]

That looks like a blast shield around the tube!

 

[mayfly]

So, just because I know bupkis about electronics, would that rig be expected to distort similarly to one of your EL84-powered amps (maybe not in terms of timbre, but just in terms of a tendency to distort)? 

Nope.  Not from the power amp.  Those tubes are incredibly linear all through the GHz range - full power in the audible spectrum won't even make it blink.  Without something else distorting it will sound like a very stiff transistor amp.

I've seen them work very well in bass amps.  But I feel that in this application it's just pure marketing   

Pretty cool though.

 

[mayfly]

That looks like a blast shield around the tube!

It's probably just to prevent you from disconnecting the top terminals.  The potential at those top terminals is probably at a 1kV or similar.  CSA requires you to need a tool like a screwdriver to get to the point where you can injure yourself, so this is likely a similar thing.

 

[greywolf]

now THAT would be delicious

 

[MikeW]

Man, that's a knob tweakers paradise. Do you have to sprechen Deutsche to know what each knob is for?

 

[stubhead]

Well, I sat through the videos and it's a damn good-sounding rock 'n' roll amp. But it does seem... anachronistic? At a time when everyone and the poodle are making little 5-watt amps to be miked through 15,000 watt PA's, these guys make an amp that would have to be turned up to teeth-delaminating volume to overdrive THE power tube... where do you put it? Like the last, tottering blind old Tyrannosaurus, crashing though the jungle as dozens then hundreds then thousands of tiny little rat-mammals tear at him, torture him with their tiny little rat claws and their tiny little rat teeth, red eyes glo...

oh, mommy - do I haaa-ff to??? urp, gotta go!

 

[Tempest]

Ok, this is really bad or really bad ass!!!!  :headbang1:

Class A 100 watts with a single 883 tube!!!

I think those are 6L6 tubes being used as driver tubes.

http://www.preuss-n-koenig.de/index.php/en/

Look like 6550's.  That amp look totally badass.

I have a Fender Vibroking that is desperately in need of maintenance that is a great unique amp. And my main squeeze as of late has been my new (old) 1966 Bassman.  I'm in love  :toothy10:

 

[swarfrat]

Once in a while, in some dusty corner of a lab at work I spot a funky unfamiliar tube that I want to take home.  But I'm not a big fan of single ended or class A. Class A because without the change in average current over time, there is no squish. Single ended because most of the ones I've heard just sound blatty.  But there's no denying the hotness of this rig. (I almost said cool, but it didn't seem an appropriate adjective for a vacuum tube, particular of this power and luminosity.)

 

[Tonar8352]

Can you say LOUD!