Has anyone tried the Australian DIY company Holton Audio amps ?


I am building my own and wanted to hear if anyone has any experience.
They use the specially designed Exicon transistors just made for audio applications,
which are supposed to be very linear across the audio bandwidth.

But obviously one listen is always better than reading 1000 specs.

I am building my own power supply with 2000 VA toroidals per channel
and approx 200,000uF 200V very low ESR caps and 100 amp very hi speed
rectifiers.  I believe the power supply is probably the most important part
of the amp.  So, if you state your experience, please also tell me the
power supply you have connected them to.

Thanks

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Yes the power supply is very important. Probably the one single part that will make the biggest difference is the diodes. They vary a lot with the best ones yielding a deep wide sound stage and a silky sophisticated sound, ie much less grain and glare. Unfortunately like everything else its not like you can tell from the specs. Fortunately unlike parts like caps even the really good diodes are still cheap, or in other words cost about the same regardless of sound quality. This one part makes such a big difference that Michael Spallone, who does a terrific Synergistic MPC mod, is happy to tell you how to do it all yourself- but keeps his preferred diode source to himself! Based on my mods, and since I didn't want to have to try half a dozen different rectifiers, it made sense to pay him.

You could ask around modder forums, see if you can get some advice.

Or considering how cheap they are just buy a few sets and plan on using whichever sounds best.