So, what other amps sound like the First Watt SIT-3?


I'd like to see your recommendations.
joeinid

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Nothing else sounds like a sit, except a tube, or a V-Fet.

V-Fets are not pure, either, they tend to have FET and BJT transistors involved in their utilization. so, tubes and SIT devices are closest to one another, in that certain beauty they bring to the music.

And that’s it.

Oh yes, these guys, out of japan. the singular ’other’. A SIT amplifier system based completely on SIT devices (It has to be ’complete’ in the pathway of the signal... as in..no other transistor type involved)

There isn’t any thing else, no matter what any other following posts may try to argue.

eg, I’ve got a $13k set of tube monoblocks sitting in the boxes, with about 100 hours on them. Maybe 200 hours. I want those SIT monoblocks!! It’s the only amplifier on the planet, that moves me forward. There isn’t anything else. From $50, to $500k....it's all dead to me. Meaningless.

Just those amps. That's it.
About $8k US a piece for the monoblocks. IIRC.

If you can find some.

Digital Do MaiN
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There IS another, and it’s a normal push pull design, made from V-fets, but it’s a secret.

Yet a hundred thousand, or more --- were made and sold.

All that’s left... is just a few at yard sales and on ebay.

It will require a VERY determined and talented technician to pull them into shape, and make them produce that ’special sound’. Yet ....almost no one knows...