Tweaking cathodyne PI in Magnatone 260 for smoother drive

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roberto
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Re: Tweaking cathodyne PI in Magnatone 260 for smoother drive

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I'd vote for sell and buy something else.
Something similar to what you like, and then do some slight adjustements.
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Re: Tweaking cathodyne PI in Magnatone 260 for smoother drive

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Not trying flogging the dead horse here, but I forgot to say that this is a DIY amp, not an original, sorry, so nothing is lost :mrgreen:
As I said before, the amp sounds OK with 47K output grid stoppers, it's almost there, so I settled with that for a moment, but now I'm afraid I have another bright idea :D:

How would you guys marry a Rocket (preamp and PI ciruits) with a vibrato circuit from Maggie 260? (I'd leave the output section as is in Maggie 260 but I'll omit the NFB, tried without it, sounds fine.)

here's the schems:
https://tubeamparchive.com/download/file.php?id=8003
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-r_TK-MCP5Xs/U ... +260+2.JPG

For a first attempt, I thought I'll just insert the whole Maggie vibrato circuit between the Rocket's treble wiper and .047 cap at the PI input. If there's a more proper way, I'm all ears... :D
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