New A50 arrived today! Warmed up with no issues. Beautiful mirror finish metal. Very well packed!
Set up with a Victrola record player. Aux output from record & Bluetooth
Mine is driving a pair of small Klipsch book shelf speakers. Started with 50% volume knob and even with small Klipsch speakers I'm getting good volume! Clarity is good but bass is light sounding. Preparing to solder in some new parts, casoding the drivers, raising plate voltage and rolling in a better rectifier. Thank you for your great UTUBE VIDEOS!
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U.S. NAVY
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You really need to do the mod and cascode that front end - 300B tubes need a much bigger swing to drive them correctly.