Tube amp for my car

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Originally Posted by wa2ise

As mentioned above, another approach for getting some tube sound in the car would be to use a tube buffer stage ahead of a SS amp. And the tube buffer built using say subminiature tubes intended for fighter jets or guided missile service. Say a pair of triodes in cathode follower connections. And you may be able to take apart an inverter to get at the high voltage DC before it's chopped into square wave AC, to get the B+ for the tubes.

I was thinking of that but with a 12AX7 type tube. I had not though of opening the inverter and removing the chopper fets. Brilliant!
All you need to do is ad the 2nd and 4th order harmonics to give it the tube sound.
I saw an ipod docking station with a 12AX7 preamp with the same intention.