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Old December 24th, 2007, 08:12 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Well, I have to chime in on this one.

A TRUE PTP signal path in a simple circuit does have a slight tonal advantage (those with tin ears might not be able to notice).

The benefits are that there are no added leads or solder joints.

The negatives are if a pot, jack or tube socket has to be replaced, the amp basically has to be rebuilt.

I did some prototyping for Mercury Magnetics a couple of years ago when the Valve Junior craze was starting. I ended up making a high-end combo with a TRUE PTP signal path that used a VJ circuit that Alan Cyre came up with and tweaked it slighly to my taste. I took one of the amps to the North Carolina Fall Ampfest last year and people were blown away. The room was 40' X 60' and my 5 watt amp followed Greg Germino's 100 watter, the promoter of the event apologized for scheduling my demo after the high wattage amps. I no longer build and sell these, but here is a link to a video of Greg Germino playing it (the video camera mic captured it nicely).

http://www.vintageamp.net/ampfest/mm5.html

Here are a couple of pics of the prototype (Note; The signal path is TRUE PTP, the powersupply is Garolite turret board);


And there are clips of that amp on Mercury Magnetics website.

True it is not feasable to build most circuits with true ptp, but Matchless does some really cool ptp/terminal strip construction.

Turret board and eyelet board are not ptp, but they are handwired, true ptp has no added leads an use the leads of the resistor/capacitor to connect directly to the origin and destination, 1 part-2 solder joints, anything else is another form of construction.

MikeY
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