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Published: 2011-06-13 18:41:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 7827; Favourites: 102; Downloads: 123
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This is a functioning 8 watt per channel valve amplifier that I built. The blue bars behind the glass are UVLED-illuminated acrylic rods. Those cans on top of the amp each has a transformer in it so this sucker is small but HEAVY, and it puts off a ton of heat... but it sounds oh-so-sweet. And louder than you might expect from something with only 8 watts.I'm in the process of building a set of matching speakers, and will post them when finished.
You can see WIP photos of this project on my blog at www.coppersteam.com
Cheers!
Mike
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This would look really good for a steam punk style audio room
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I guess that is the essence of such machines: heavy, limited perameters and sucks energy like a hog
but it is durable, lives for ungodly amounts of time, and what it does, it does spectacularly
I've heard tubes compared to model T's and transistors compared to Ferraris, there is much to be respected when basic limited manufacturing and engineering parameters are bent to achieve so much on their own
it is greatly what made things like the AK-47 firearm line have such unyielding success...
I'm temped to think tubes would have a much bigger niche if they were enignieered smarter and smaller and fed not with limited fuel supplies, but renewable energies... which are virtually limitless (although nuclear, when done right, also could last... hundreds of millions of years without ecological threat...)
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You are the Boss! That looks beautiful and its functional too!
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where did you learn to build valve amps, im not sure which im more impressed by, this amp or that you built it?
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Well, It's not THAT impressive, it was a kit 
Cheers, and thanks!
Mike
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if you would be so kind as to through me the link of the kit, i have always wanted a valve amp and if i could buiild one how cool would that be?. i really love your stuff. the brass touch is reall nice.
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Sure! I bought it at Tube Amp Depot.
Here's the kit I used: [link]
They sell a bunch of different levels of kits there, not too hard to put together either!
Have fun!
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thanks man, i am super appreciative.
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You carved this out of a block of solid awesome didn't you? Because it is so clearly awesome.
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hahaha.. why yes I did! Thank you!
M
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This is the kind of steampunk things I love...functional and beautiful. Awesome job!
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Thank you! I can't wait to see how they turn out either..
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absolutely adorable. i like the style and the idea behind it.
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