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Modifying the TAD-60

I was an early adopter of this pretty good amp that was imported by the late Paul Grzybek. Paul was very good communicator an shared a lot with me over the years before he passed.
I was inspired to do some mods by what one A'goner sold earlier this year, which was a massive rebuild. This amp is actually listed again presently.
Mostly PS stuff which I am planning to do, but also some changes to the driver circuit. I will be starting this weekend and reporting my progress and welcome any info or suggestions, of course criticism as long as it is in the DIY spirit.
pelliott123
czarivey
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Why modifying TAD when you can build your own from scratch instead of MASSIVE REBUILD with TRUE DIY SPIRIT?
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grannyring
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Great learning experience is why! I had to understand what was going on in the amp without any schematic or solder by number instructions. I had to desolder many parts etc...all needed skills. I could also compare stock to modified when done which was great. Just another approach to DIY.
czarivey
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It takes little to no practice of soldering or desoldering things. Watch a few tubes, get descent soldering station and repeat same and you're pro. It takes much more to assemble and build from scratch.
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grannyring
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Not sure why you want to argue? Anyway, it was a big project and I loved
it! No doubt one can go at this many different ways and I decided to start
with the TAD 60 on this particular project. Let's just have some fun!
pelliott123 OP
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Thanks for all the good info, I just disregard the negative stuff from the trolls,
I replaced the coupling caps in the driver stage with Clarity and the 68k between the two stages with an AudioNote tantalum. I like what I am hearing. I have big power tranny and big 193Q for choke input. using a pair of 6au4 for rectifiers. Do not have the smoothing caps yet. Still looking
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