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Originally Posted by kalee20
....though in terms of power gain the input capacitances of the MOSFET have no effect as the resulting input current is 'wattless.' I did consider it before I posted!
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I agree and its nice with the EF98 that for practical purposes its input with the 10M resistor behaves as an "R" and not a "Z", so you can drive that from practically any audio source without loading it differently over the frequency spectrum.
It is a lot of fun making these amps. Probably an MPF102 would subs directly in for the EF98 (along with the 23:1 transformer) if one wasn't keen on the vacuum tube. But EF98's are pretty cool, working with the 12V anode voltage and if you throw in another EF98 as a pre-amp, the heaters just go in series.