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Re: Are you sure?

V=IR
Voltage = current * resistance

Ohm's Law, not Ohm's request. What does it mean here?

Well, if you seperate the two tubes, only half the DC current (compared to the original schematic) is going through each cathode circuit. To get the same voltage drop you originally desired (as in the article's shared-transformer schematic) you would need to use double the resistance.

V=I*R
V=(1/2I)*(2R)

As it stands you have the single current running through the original resistance value = (1/2I)*R.

This resistor sets the bias for the tube and your tube appears to biased incorrectly as a result. I would have expected loud, distorted sound, not quiet sound, to be the result, but let's get it biased right and see how it goes.

Very simple fix. Cut out one of the resistors per channel, leaving one 1.5K resistor per channel. Enjoy!

Double check your wiring, I am suspicious that you may have lost some of the signal somewhere.

-j


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