On Fri, 10 Jun 2016 14:50:08 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

In article ,
Phil Allison wrote:
does anyone still use germanium transistor amps - anywhere ?

Just by coincidence used one yesterday. A couple of ancient Henry's radio
kits which I put in a case with a rudimentary pre-amp many years ago. Only
10 watts per channel. The sort of thing you could leave lying around and
wouldn't get nicked. ;-)

Never did any measurements on it - but it sounded OK for the things it got
used for.

I seem to remember you had to be conservative with Germanium power
amps. Thermal runaway was always lurking just around the corner.

d

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