“However I didn’t know” | Seth’s Weblog

The second time you put in vacuum tubes into a hand-crafted 2A3 stereo amplifier, you’ll know that two of the 4 pins are barely bigger than the opposite two. And also you’ll know that the tubes go in fairly simply, you don’t should power them.

You could know this stuff as a result of the primary time you probably did it, you pushed actually exhausting and wrecked the tube.

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November 4, 2025