

If more gain is truly needed in a particular design, the extra stage could provide an order of magnitude more by simply being cascaded.

That comes at the expense of significantly higher supply voltages and another active stage. The most significant advantage to the CCS is in fact only the increase in gain. Based on measurements made by myself and many others over the years, distortion levels are well below audibility. Even if they did, there's no "second harmonic glaze" with tubes such as the 'SN7 and 'SL7 when anode resistors are used. No audiophile I know wants to hear distortion, even-order or otherwise. Michael, with all respect, that's just nonsense. RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load, posted on Decemat 20:58:21

The B+ supply voltage would have to be a very high and the resistor would have to dissipate a lot of heat.Ī plate choke is a CCS load with high impedance and low DCR so a "lower than normal" B+ voltage is doable. Note, A tube stage can be built using a plate resistor of a very high value would be the same as a CCS but that isn't practical. a plate resistor the stage will have a higher PSRR. The harmonic distortion will be lower as a horizontal load line avoids the non-linear part of the tube where the mu of the tube varies.īecause of the very high impedance of the CCS vs. It can be almost as high a the mu of the tube depending on the input impedance of the following stage. The stage gain will be higher vs a plate resistor. It can be almost as high as the plate impedance of the tube used, depending on the input impedance of the following stage. The output impedance of a stage built with a tube that's using a CCS plate load will be higher than the same tube, same operating point, with a plate load resistor. To the best of my knowledge the technical difference is, I don't know that I can describe the sound difference. RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load, posted on Decemat 20:34:34 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Tizman 15:36:54 10/16/17 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Tre' 20:34:34 12/16/16 RE: Analysis by Kurt Strain - PakProtector 16:31:18 12/17/16 RE: Analysis by Kurt Strain - Triode_Kingdom 15:42:40 12/17/16 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Michael Samra 20:58:21 12/16/16 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Salectric 04:19:31 12/17/16 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Stuben 16:30:21 10/17/17 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Stuben 12:07:30 10/29/17 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - hifipaul 18:33:58 10/18/17 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - Audio Pete 13:02:39 10/23/17 RE: How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor load - used-hifi 09:06:01 10/19/17 Folk, How does CCS plate load sound vs Resistor plate load, say a 6922 for example
