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Valve amplifiers can be used for applications such as guitar amplifiers, satellite transponders such as. We have constructed an amplifier parallel push pull class ab1 using 8 x el821 valves plus 6c4, 6br7, 5u4g. The power of the circuits presented in the book ranges from 1 to 75 watts. In passive variants of the baxandall circuit, extra stages of amplification may be used to make up for the approximately. A number of recent visitors have registered surprise that we do not have any music playing in our workshop. To obtain a working point where the valve operates in a linear way, the valve must be biased with a negative voltage on the grid with respect to the cathode.
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