Transition Audio Design modded Altec 1570B


Tom Tutay took the case, iron, and output tubes and created a really georgeous amp. One iteration of the original was used to drive a garbage can sized servo motor--so it can drive your loudspeakers! Two 811 transmitter tubes in PP configuration putting out 170watts. Plates are powered by two EL 34s. In front of that, you will find a 6SN7, and then a 12AT7. Plenty of gain in this amp. I decided to use speakers with about 88db/watt efficiency--could never get horns to image well--and I don't have the space to put them. These amps give me the dynamics that horns/SET amps deliver, but with pinpoint imaging. Tom has made an old icon into a modern marvel
jmwaite

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I also have a pair of Tom's 1570B mods plus one of his subwoofer buffers.

My friends leave my house with jaws agape after listening parties..

Cheers, Chris in Tucson

Notes and schematics for my 2006 pair are posted at this link, along with the Altec article from Vacuum Tube Valley No. 7.

Cheers, Chris

 

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