David Berning live

Thank you for the post!

My Quadrature Z monoblocks have a base that Steve designed. It’s made of copper and provides a multi-layer damping and ground system.

@clio09 Yup, my DNA 0.5 has Steve’s Gravity Base he adapted from development work he did for Berning.  Due to the expense of copper these days they now use a highly-engineered and dense wood-based product they find as effective but much cheaper than copper.  All I know is it added several lbs. to my amp and can’t wait to finally hear the thing.

What a great video. David Berning is practically a living legend. I agree with @dodgealum on Mark Schneider’s contribution. He brought unique tube amplifiers designed by David Berning to many more audiophiles. @clio09 so you’re not impressed with David Berning’s choice to work with Mark? Did you know David tried to work a deal with at least two other audio manufacturers to bring his designs to the market but both companies failed? It seems David’s ZOTL amps are extremely complicated to build. This is where Mark and his team have excelled. The customer service LTA offers is above and beyond. As a rabid audiophile, like myself, Mark’s commitment to a quality audio product is motivated by progressive excellence. Mark’s manufacturing and marketing success has inspired David to continue to crank out designs as we will see in the form of new products in the very near future.

@lancelock here is I wrote:

In my opinion, David Berning is one of the top audio engineers of our time. Mark Schneider on the other hand did not impress me at all.

Here is what you wrote:

@clio09 so you’re not impressed with David Berning’s choice to work with Mark?

What I wrote was an opinion based on comments Mark made during the presentation. What you wrote was based on the assumption that I was commenting on the relationship between Mark and David. Not sure how you arrived at that conclusion but it is completely wrong.

I understand you're quite enamored with LTA as a product owner and I'm happy for you in that regard. I'm also happy that David Berning has found a situation where he can focus on what he loves doing which is R&D and designing circuits, while leaving the heavy lifting, namely manufacturing, sales, and marketing, to others who have more expertise and patience in these matters.

@soix Thank you for posting the link to the chat David gave. I had only known about LTA’s products from a video of their latest product, I think it was a 40 Watt integrated amplifier, but I was so impressed by both their quality of construction and their price. I want my next amp to be a ZOTL amp. I found David’s exposition of the basic DC to DC conversion fascinating. He was able to make relatively complex things seem simple enough that I felt I could begin to grasp them. It is much better, to me, to be looking at a schematic than talking about various stages of amplification. I had to break up the video into two parts; but I watched all of it, while changing the oil in my truck and checking the air in the tires of my two vehicles and cooking spaghetti for supper. Great stuff in the video, appreciate the fact you shared it and I’m envious of you getting to listen to a ZOTL amplifier.

Happy listening!