{"id":149,"date":"2008-06-09T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T15:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/wordpress63\/?p=149"},"modified":"2013-03-29T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T05:53:00","slug":"darling-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyparadise.com\/w\/darling-club\/","title":{"rendered":"darling club"},"content":{"rendered":"

Darling Club
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\nWelcome to the Darling Club.
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\nHow it all began… "Papa Darling", Bob Danielak<\/a> says…<\/p>\n

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\nI ran across a few of these tubes cheap in a surplus store. After looking up the characteristics, i thought i’d only be able to make a line-stage out of them.
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\nSat on the shelf for a while.<\/i>
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\nLater, i built an SE 12V6 (pentode) amplifier using 12SJ7 pentode driver. It sounded ok, but sounded much better when the 12V6 was triode connected. this amp put out <1W, but was suprisingly loud.<\/i>
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\nThen i remembered that the 1626 also used a 12.6V filament, and that its pin-out was identical to the 12V6 (except it had no screen). So i simply plugged it in to the 12V6 amp.<\/i>
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\nAnd the rest is history… \ud83d\ude42<\/i>
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\nIMPORTANT <\/span>
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\nI’m sorry I have not been able to diligently update this page. You could join the Club directly now!
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\nJoin the Darling Club<\/a>!
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\nThe Darling…
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\nRead Bob’s original Sound Practice Darling article here<\/a>. Thanks to Joe Roberts!
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\nRead Jeremy Epstein<\/a>‘s wonderfully written Darling Fest’99<\/a>.
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\nThe Darling was featured in
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\nSchematics… You can find them at Bob Danielak’s<\/a>. Please check out the various Darling Club members’ webpages too.<\/p>\n

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\nThe version I built is modified by Shamsul Bahrin<\/a> from Malaysia.
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\nFree Lunch Darling by Papa Darling himself!
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\nCheck out my Experimental Darling<\/a> page as well…
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\nMatrix Darling!<\/a>
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\nMore than out of this world… "My Darling is not a Monkey!"
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\nDatasheets of 1626<\/a>, 8532(6J4)<\/a>, and 5965(12AV7)<\/a>.
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\nUpdate: April 2006 NEW! <\/span>  
\nDarling iron sets<\/a> now available!<\/blink>
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Darling Club…<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n


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\n\"The
\n<\/a>Bob "Papa Darling" Danielak, USA<\/a>
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\nJeremy Epstein’s DC Darling, Brooklyn, New York, USA<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Gary Kaufman’s DC Darling, Boston, Massachussetts, USA<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Tim Reese’s Double Darling, Boston, Massachussetts, USA<\/a>
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\nLD Moore’s Scrap Box DC Darling<\/a>
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\nDion’s 1626SE Project, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York, USA.<\/a>
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\nTom Scoville’s Double Darling, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Ed Faulkner’s Single Darling, Moscow, Idaho, USA.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Steven’s Sakuma Darling, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.<\/a>
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\nArnaud Michotte’s Darling, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.<\/span><\/a><\/span>
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\n<\/a>Aren van Waarde’s Double Darling, Zuidhorn, Netherlands.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Doug Forbes’ Standing Darling, La Crescenta, California, USA.<\/a>
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\nShamsul Bahrin, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia.<\/a>
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\nKenneth Lau, Sandakan, Malaysia.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Timo’s MONSTER Darling, Bremen, Germany.<\/span><\/a>
\nNo kidding. On the left is the power supply while signal circuitry is on the right.<\/span>
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\n<\/a>Yours truly! Naked Darling, Yeo, Penang, Malaysia.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Brian Wickman’s Stereo Darling, Lincoln, Nebraska, USA.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Ed Fausto’s Stereo Darling, Manila, Philippines<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Gabriel Voon’s Double Darling, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Kyle Kuroda’s DC Double Darling, Mililani, Hawaii, US.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Constantine Constas Darling, Athens, Greece.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Tom Laskowski’s DC Darling, Waterloo, Canada.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Vaughn Wright’s Darling, Los Angeles, California.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>John Woldstad’s DC Double Darling, Renton, WA.<\/a>
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\n<\/a> Paul Butterfield Audio’s DadaDarling. Love the mercury rectifier, love the artiness, love the duck!<\/a>
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\n<\/a> Carsten’s SE Darling. Note the 300B is now a paper weight… Germany.<\/a>
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\nErik "Dr Exotica on Audio Asylum" Hoel’s Darling Amp, Redlands, California, USA.
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\n<\/a>Johannes Lebong’s 5691 driver Darling amp, Karlsruhe, Germany. <\/a>
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\n<\/a>Paul Radovan’s Darling, Brisbane, Australia. <\/a>
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\n<\/a>Song Heng’s Darling, Singapore<\/a>
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\n<\/a>CG Ew’s Darling, Batu Pahat, Malaysia<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Johannes Lebong’s Ultra Fi Darling, Germany<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Alexander Kriegel’s Darling, Germany<\/a>
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\n<\/a>abraxasaudio’s Darling amp project, USA.
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\n<\/a>Wilson Santiago’s Darling, Hammond, Indiana, USA. Built from a cigar box!<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Philip Barrett’s Little Darling, Dallas, Texas, USA.<\/a>
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\n<\/a>Tom McNally’s Darling, Atlantic City, NJ, USA.<\/a>
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