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Old 9th February 2023, 08:36 PM
Markpab66 Markpab66 is offline
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Default Hot tubes!

Hello friends! I'm new to this forum, bought a World Audio Designs Kit 34 integrated tube amp just last Sunday, and it arrived Tuesday. Was ready built, seems to have been really well assembled by whoever made it, and I love the sound - I'll never go back to solid state now.
I was worried that the mains transformer seems to be getting really hot, just idling, so I took the temperature with a thermocouple, was 46°C, seemed a lot hotter than that to the touch. Would you say this seems about right? I'm totally new to tube amps, except for a Chinese tube kit I built in November.
Just for a laugh, I put the thermocouple on the output EL34's and the temp was 92°C, but the winner was the rectifier tubes - 114°C!
I can't get enough of the way this amp sounds, I hear now what all the fuss is about regarding tubes, they are great!
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