Atmasphere,
Well, my cell phone finally is not correcting atmasphere.
NYAL is based on the same design (that I have listened to and am familiar with), and many knew and worked with Mr Futterman. There is a direct lineage.
Yes, it’s been stated that the NYALs were unstable. This is a controversial point as you must know. My experience has been that if you attach them to the wrong load, you are begging for trouble. I learned this the hard way, when I tried to drive a pair of Warfdales. It was not a pretty sight.
My pair have been cared for, first by Da-Hong Seetoo
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da-Hong_Seetoo, then by George Kaye (Moscode, and a NYAL alumni), and then by Jon Specter (also a NYAL alumni, a highly regarded blues guitarist session man and cousin of Al Kooper).
Jon took the amps and rebuilt them from the ground up with audiophile parts and converted them to triode. There are only two other pairs like these.
I’m certain that my amps hold their own to anything out there. They are breathtakingly transparent.
And Jon corrected for the weaknesses in the design of these types of amps: there is now a much better bottom. I haven’t heard your amps, I know they enjoy a terrific reputation, but my copy of Canto General sounds weak on the bottom, and so I wonder if your design suffers similarly. Granted, I’m driving Altecs, known for brightness at 2K and rolling off below 100 or so.
https://www.theaudioatticvinylsundays.com
