Why no threads on OTL amps?


I looked through the old thread list and didn't find anything on OTL amps. How come? Does nobody like them? Is there something wrong with them? Would you buy/notbuy one, and why? If you would buy one, which one do you like best? I always thought OTL was the best, but there doesn't seem to be much interest here on this forum for them.
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Chris-He is using Verity Audio Parsifal Encores, which isn't a very good synergistically. We switched back and forth from the monitor and the whole speaker and it sounds much more like music with just the monitor which is surprise 8 ohms and with the sub(encore) its 6 or 4 ohms, which isn't great for the amp. He is currently looking for speakers and he and I(mostly he) have been listening to everything we can find. Still nothing amazing, we are looking at everything between 7,000-40,000 its scary how little is actually out there that will work. I use avalon eclipse and think they would mate up well with the amps, but they don't have what he is looking for, no two of us are the same.

~Tim
Tacs-You'd need a lot more then 30k for your dream system, the amps alone are $19,995 per pair. I have spent a good deal of time listening to these amps on a good friends system and they are as good as everyone says, perhaps better. OTL's are incredible, though they have there set backs, for me its cost!! other then that I would have them.

~Tim
Kris,

I imagine the soundlabs and Tenors wasn't that greatest set up, wolcotts would have been great though! The tenor's are very speaker dependent find a GREAT speaker like Rockports, Kharmas, Piega, Talon, etc.... you have magic but on the wrong speaker it doesn't do them justice. Keep in mind I own BAT tube amps, and my opinion is completely un-bias. Anyone who heard the Tuscany Room at CES knows what I am talking about, something VERY magical happens when the system is right with these amps.