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Re: Need help choosing a new 45 SET.

Hi,

I am aware of several Japanese Kit's that are available assembled (Sun Audio and Sun Valley I can readily remember as currently available, SanEi used to have an 801A Kit, Softone has a more or less universal SE amp which takes the royal kissing cousin of the 10, the WE 205D).

And the new version of the DIYHiFisupply "Lady Day Plus" (which is available assembled and tailored to any Valve you care to specify) has got the ability to operate 10/10y's (among others), if with slightly lacking primary inductance on the output transformer, but not really any worse than some other Japanese kits/semi-kits on that count.

If you add a little NFB as per the San Ei circuit (6SL7 SRPP to 801A plus some loop feedback) the Lady Day Plus Kit would definitly be a good choice for a 10Y, in zero NFB you would need to go for one of the "hot & low" operating points, that is 350V/30mA instead of 425V/18mA.

Finally, I fancy it would not be TOO much of a stretch to modify a Decware Zen to use 10Y's....

Ciao T


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