As ASIC chip designer I can add. For any chip production you need to produce millions of chips of this particular model. Otherwise you will lose a lot of money.
For example, companies like Chord who made FPGA based DACs use FPGA for their custom DSP algorithms. Thay do it not because FPGA is better than ASIC. It is opposite in ASIC is possible to get in many times higher performance.
But they do it because ASIC production need to produce millions ASIC chip.
Therefore nobody does produce a special chip for audio!
SET the best?
Is SET amplification where we should all end up? I keep reading posts where people tell of their journeys from plenty power to micro power, and how amazing SET amplification is 45 set 211 set 845 set otl, and usually, ....with the right speaker. I have yet to read of anyone who has gone the other direction from SET, to High watt beast class A amps or others.
If your speakers can be driven by minimal wattage, is this the most realistic, natural sound we can achieve? versus say, 86db sensitive speakers and a 1000w amp?
Is the end result solely based on speaker pairing? circuit? tubes?
I am in the process of changing my direction in my search for realistic sound, just because, and wondering if this really is the best direction to be going.
From what I have been reading I think it may be.
What do we get with SET? What do we give up?
What's you favorite color?
If your speakers can be driven by minimal wattage, is this the most realistic, natural sound we can achieve? versus say, 86db sensitive speakers and a 1000w amp?
Is the end result solely based on speaker pairing? circuit? tubes?
I am in the process of changing my direction in my search for realistic sound, just because, and wondering if this really is the best direction to be going.
From what I have been reading I think it may be.
What do we get with SET? What do we give up?
What's you favorite color?
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@david_ten There are also a good number of SET threads. The comments are relevant due directly to the question asked in the OP. It appears that if the answer were 'yes' at one time that SETs are rapidly being eclipsed, even by class D amps let alone other tube topologies. |
well I have not heave your amp, nor any other Class D. Only several PP amps. EL34, KT88,Kt120, all were excellent in dynamics and musicality. But have you read anything suxch as **wow this xyz PP amp is magical..**Maybe Jadis' new KT170 has some magic,, but that tube along with the KT150, to me looks just like a bigger KT88 style tube..and so??? More power? More bass/highs..?? OK, Big deal. But how often have we read, **WOW sets are magical, pure lineraity..* My tech who built his UX250 amp, had 1 cap not soldered, well solder broke off after so many years,,, we reapired it,, brought it back,, NOW I was hearing SET magic for the 1st time. Once you heard SET sound,, there is no possible way the audiophile will turn his back ona SET. Maybe as a 2nd system, which I am sure many of us here have bother PP and SETs. But once struck with SET magic, one could never forget the magic (in certain recordings/music styles). SRTs the best?? Lets rephrase. Which amp design offers the magic **something SET -like**? EL34 SET's yes, But not a El34PP.
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