{"id":681,"date":"2012-10-07T08:14:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T08:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/?page_id=681"},"modified":"2017-07-08T07:51:28","modified_gmt":"2017-07-08T06:51:28","slug":"71a-dht-pre-amplifier","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/dht-pre-amplifier\/71a-dht-pre-amplifier\/","title":{"rendered":"71a DHT pre-amplifier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was my 71a DHT preamp incarnation. I reused existing circuitry so it can be improved. Firstly the top BSP129 should be an DN2540 with heatsink. P1 can be replaced with a LND150 depletion MOSFET CCS \u00a0and a resistor divider to improve the frequency response. R5 should be your preferred 100K stepped attenuator instead.<\/p>\n<p>I enjoyed this very much and will definitely encourage everyone to build it. I recall that the bass response wasn&#8217;t as good as the 4P1L despite anode resistance being low as well.<\/p>\n<p>Slight filament starvation to reduce microphony and DC regulation is provided by <a title=\"DHT filament regulator\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/dht-filament-regulator\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rod Coleman boards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Globe 71 are difficult to get hold of, but worth trying them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"682\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/dht-pre-amplifier\/71a-dht-pre-amplifier\/71a-preamp1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1.png?fit=1088%2C1103&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1088,1103\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"71A Preamp1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1.png?fit=840%2C852&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-682\" title=\"71A Preamp1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1-1010x1024.png?resize=584%2C592\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1.png?resize=1010%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 1010w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1.png?resize=295%2C300&amp;ssl=1 295w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/71A-Preamp1.png?w=1088&amp;ssl=1 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 85vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/cartoon\/valves-old\/Valves-old\/Entries\/2012\/1\/29_71a_Pre-amplifier.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/a> are my earlier impressions and description of the circuit.<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Ale<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was my 71a DHT preamp incarnation. I reused existing circuitry so it can be improved. Firstly the top BSP129 should be an DN2540 with heatsink. P1 can be replaced with a LND150 depletion MOSFET CCS \u00a0and a resistor divider to improve the frequency response. R5 should be your preferred 100K stepped attenuator instead. I &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/dht-pre-amplifier\/71a-dht-pre-amplifier\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;71a DHT pre-amplifier&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":679,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-681","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2r2tK-aZ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6555,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/681\/revisions\/6555"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartola.co.uk\/valves\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}