[TV MAN]

OK, so now down to the nitty gritty. Numbers. While I don't have a a lot of experience doing this, I gave it a shot. I got my scope, signal generator and 8R dummy load out and this is what I have as is where is: Take a look. The numbers speak for themselves. I found the sweet spot for the bias is about -26 something. If I crank it up over -30, I can watch the gain drop and it starts clipping, top I think, if I drop below about -20, it starts clipping again, bottom I think. I also found its pretty responsive across the audible band. I can see a drop around about 25-30 hz. The waveform starts getting pretty jagged, but smooths out around 28-30hz. If my calculations are anywhere near non-scientific correct, I'm pulling right around 18w out of this baby! Now, honesty, my scope is not a high dollar scope by any means, so there could be some distortion I can't see.

Not bad for a budget build using parts of a kit, off the shelf parts and some redneck engineering. But I will say those testers on each side of my head say it sounds pretty good so far. More to come.