Hi folks. I've been watching Stephe for a while and find a lot of her YouTube channel fascinating. My midlife crisis has focused on audio and vintage audio in particular. I was really into stereos as a kid and a couple of my older sibs had friends with what would now be considered "Holy Grail" systems. Consequently, my first stereo was my sister Ellen's Marantz 2216. Not bad for a teenager in the early 80s. I started building and restoring speakers about two years ago as we bought a house with a garage workshop and the kids are grown. So far I've completely rebuilt speakers from Klipsch, JBL, ADS, Wharfdale, Cerwin Vega, Electrovoice, etc. And I've built a few kits from CSS. Now I'm trying out amps and turntables. I can read basic crossover schematics but amps not so much. Naturally, I decided to build the 300B amp project that Stephe has designed. I have almost all the parts and will probably start drilling out the chassis this week or next. This should be pretty exciting given my learning curve but you don't get better at swimming by staying in the shallow end of the pool. I'm sure I'll be asking a lot of questions and blowing up her email for pictures of the assembled amp from below. If anyone else has done this build and wants to send pics or advice, or you just want to point and laugh as I fumble my way through this then please don't hesitate. On a personal note, my wife and I live in the mountains outside of Asheville, NC. We're originally Ohioans. We have three grown kids, 7 dogs, 3 cats, and an absolute butt load of farm animals. I'm a property appraiser, like fly fishing, classic jazz, France, baking levain, and mornings. I cannot stand Kiss, single-ply toilet paper, Oasis, wheat beer, sweet tea, and pineapple on pizza. Cheers folks! Hope you are all well.

Hello all from Ray living in Wales, UK (well, from a tiny island called Anglesey off the Welsh coast). I have been looking at another amp builder’s web site who provides kits and schematics but for power he uses transformers for B+ via full or half wave diode based rectification rather than tube rectification and a separate low voltage DC supply (wall wart) for filament heating, enabling easy switching between 6 and 12 volts by simply plugging in an alternate supply, enabling some tube swapping. I can see some advantages, mainly a simpler power supply - but what others are there, and are these outweighed by disadvantages?

Hello, New to the forum but not to tubes. Looks like there is a lot of familiarity with the nobsound 6p1 on here. I am in the market for another tube amp (have a restored fisher 400) and wanted the input on which to buy? Looks like no sound has the 6p1 or an el34 model. I like the looks of the 6p1 but there seems like a number of required mods for the 6p1. I don’t see much on the el34 model regarding mods. Is the el34 a better model than the 6p1? I have Klipsch Heresy 1 speakers so the low watt is not an issue for either amp. Thanks!