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Thought on OTL tube amps

Just curious....how do these sound/perform compared to tube amps with transformers? Why do you prefer one or the other? Any particular brands of OTL amps you would recommend listening to? You can see my system on my tag here...listen mostly to rock and roll with a smattering of jazz and a bit of classical once in a while. The next stop on my amplifier adventure is an OTL model, and I have no intention of trading it for either SET I currently have, as I'm very happy with both. One of the ways I enjoy experimenting with different "sound" is by switching up the amps. Just trying to solicit some opinions, of which I know there are many strong ones here at A-Gon. Thanks in advance!
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realdeal
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Maybe you have'nt tried all,I have an OTL using three tubes, one 300B,kt88 and 7788 per CH,5u4 tube rectified power supply,one capacitor in whole signal path & all speaker impedance are welcome.
realdeal
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Jallen,How did you know that,a wild guess?,not all OTL are the same.
realdeal
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Uru975,The Transnova 200 is a solid state OTL.
realdeal
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simintju,you are right,most responses are coming from their noses,not technical.
realdeal
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Trelja,May the FORCE be in Simon Vinitsky's soul.
realdeal
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Nobody knows all the knowledge about OTL,Some were copied and modified.Most commercial/on the market OTL are very ineffecient in converting tube output capabilities which paralleling tubes is the only option.
realdeal
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Sorry to say that the atmas are not stand alone OTL tube amp but need output transformer  plain and simple.
realdeal
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The Zero autotransformer will not make  amplifier output impedance and the speaker input impedance higher as  Paul Speltz claim,It only decreases impedance on both input and output but it increase output  power due to less impedance and more current.There's a lot of Paul explanation about the Zero  are wrong.
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