8 W Single Ended EL34 amplifier designed by Claus Byrith
Claus Byrith is the head of the studio at the Royal Academy of Music in Aarhus. He has a life-long experience from different sound recording and reproduction equipment.
After reading Claus Byrith’s instruction for the 30W PP amplifier (found here) I was very suprised (but pleased) when Claus suggested that he could also write an article about building a SE amplifier. According to Claus, this amplifier is even easier to build than the PP ditto. Enjoy!
(Claus Byrith can be contacted directly through email address clausbyrith@gmail.com)
The instruction is separated in two parts:
Building instruction for 8W SE amplifier (pdf file, 624k)
and
Appendix (pdf file, 595k)
with tube data sheets and some classic SE amplifier schematics with comments.
Schematic with a higher resolution for 8W SE amplifier (jpg file, 100k)
Transformers used in the above amplifier:
Output transformer LL1664/80mA