What I've been up to for the last 3 days...

[dave_mc]

looks excellent now it's all (more or less) together :)

Thought I wasn't going mad!

haha :D

A pair of 10" Eminence Legend 1028Ks. Alnico jobbies. For the price (they were £35 a pop each) it'd have been rude not to. If I don't like them, I'll flog 'em and try something else. Though word has it that the work well with clean amps.

oooh very nice. I very nearly bought one for my vht special 6, except i was advised that they didn't sound so good in a 1x10- apparently they sound great in a 4x10 (hopefully they'll sound good in a 2x10, too). I've really liked the other legends i've tried, so odds are they'll be excellent.

[jpfamps]

Isn't that four (yes four) EL34s in parallel SE? - I'd love to see the schematic.  Apparently they're approaching the power supply from a non-traditional angle to get round having a huuuuuuge PT for the current requirements of those EL34s running class A.

I've got the 20W Lionheart which is 4xEL84s in parallel SE.  The EL34 model has 5 in parallel!!  Mine has a toroidal PT.

5 x EL34s.

Wow.

That's an eccentric design.

Good to someone trying something different.

Laney have used toroids for mains transformers for quite a while.

The output transformer could be very large.......

[HTH AMPS]

Here's what it sounds like...  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrKBp6aYOzE

Sounds nice, but I don't hear anything that would make me want to use five EL34s to get 50w out when you could use two.  I'd wager that a pair of cathode biased EL34s in PP wouldn't sound massively dissimilar with the same basic topology (course you'd have a PI, which the L50H doesn't of course have being a SE design)  :?

The big difference will be using lower gain tones and winding the amp up - thats where you're gonna hear the difference. 

[juansolo]

I'll give it it's due though, unconventional it may be, that Laney of Marauders does sound absolutely bloody lovely.

[bucketshred]

Nice build there Juan, I used the SE-5a for recording 2nd rhythm tracks and leads earlier this year and it was KILLER!!