"Keith G" wrote
OK Martin, it falls to me to say 'Well Done'!! :-)

You went after a valve amp with an impossibly small budget and got one!
Enjoy!

Now, a Reality Check (*someone's* got to do it):

The amp is (presumably) hand-made and cost nowt - I most sincerely hope it
doesn't play you up, but it'd be a bit of a miracle if it didn't at some
stage and, quite possibly, the only valve amp on the planet that didn't
develop a bit of character! ;-)

So what if it does? You're trained in electronics and can wield a soldering
iron - so, not a problem!

Read this (all of it).....

http://www.stereo411.com/forum/viewt...1293&view=next

.... and see some geezer got a reet dodgy sample. He fixed it and now he's
got a 'refinished' (see much earlier in the thread) amp for a fraction of
the price of a 'posh' one and he's very pleased with it! Cheaper even than a
kit amp - actually *half* the price of a kit amp....!!

(Don't miss this link:

http://www.ec21.com/co/g/gzzry/index.html

..... very wankworthy pic of your amp and useful contacts, should you need
them.)

Yeah, I found that company yesterday evening.

Here's another pic of this amp in my home, with a CD atop it for scale.

(As I said, I'd assumed it was quite a bit smaller than it really is!)

http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk/images/yaqin_ss.jpg

It's a bit hard to photograph well and still get the glow and the hardest
thing is to capture the little "bargraph" valves well. They're the ones at
the front, extreme left and right, glowing green.

It warms the place up a bit though, and right now, in summer, that's not
such a good thing!

Anyone else here have this amp?



Martin
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M.A.Poyser Tel.: 07967 110890
Manchester, U.K. http://www.fleetie.demon.co.uk