My 5W Komet.. (now a liverpool)

[JamesHealey]

Here is my 5W Komet clone, it's an interesting process i've gone through whilst building this amplifier, I've decided to stick to the original schematic in the pre-amp to a tea only deviation is the 330k grid leak is actually a 220k and 100k in series because I couldn't find 330k as easily.

anyway.. here's some pics (and a little explaination of each one), I'll do some soundclips hopefully tomorrow!

[Chad]

Nice work James. Can't wait to hear the clips.

[Structo]

I'm kind of surprised you can identify that the metal film resistors affected the tone much.

Did you switch them to carbon or carbon film?

I know the Dumble style amp uses the high quality Vishay/Dale RCD65 metal films for plate resistors but I've never heard anybody complain about them.

Looks like a cool little amp.

Something I like to do on my cathode biased amps is to arrange the big cathode resistor with either a lot of room around it or situate it so it is above the bypass cap with air around it.
They can generate quite a bit of heat, which is not good for E caps.

[JamesHealey]

thanks for the tip structo.. will move that resistor.

[JamesHealey]

Decided I wasn't too fond of the Komet Pre-amp in this particular power section it sounded rather harsh so I've re-worked the pre-amp to be a liverpool spec.