lynn_olson
Responses from lynn_olson
| 300b lovers Coming back to Earth, I heard the Purifi Class D amplifier at the show. Quite good, and free of the usual transistor Class AB metallic coloration. The Raven preamp would make an excellent match for the Purify, since it is very transparent, has ple... | |
| 300b lovers Don’t get me started on the differences between Mahayana Buddhism and Vedanta Hinduism, and subtle (but fairly obvious) Buddhist influences in the Sermon on the Mount. Here’s one for you: when I was a little tyke in Japan, no more than ten years ... | |
| 300b lovers I’ll third Don Sach’s opinion. I’ll go further and say the Songer speakers are the best full-range drivers I have ever heard, better than the Feastrex (which I have heard), and remarkably, free of the upper-mid roughness that usually plagues drive... | |
| 300b lovers The day before, Don told me about Whitestix, his oldest customer, and said he was trained as an economist. (!) So as we sat down to a delicious dinner at the Thai restaurant across the street, I was curious and couldn’t help asking: "Chicago Schoo... | |
| 300b lovers I’m truly sorry you had that experience. The staff in the (fairly small) room rotated between Don, myself, and the four younger people at Spatial. (Don and I were the obvious old farts.) The Spatial people were manning the room (with a nonstop 4-h... | |
| 300b lovers What. A. Show! Just got home ten minutes ago from Seattle. The most intense thing I've done since I went to the European Triode Festival in 2004. At least I didn't have to fly to Zurich this time ... only a 2.5 hour flight to SeaTac, and quick tr... | |
| 300b lovers The Raven was the surprise for me. You see, I’ve been listening to the Karna amps for 20 years, now reborn as the Blackbird. Yes, there are differences, but what’s at the show is very very close to what I know so well at home ... maybe a teensy bi... | |
| 300b lovers Yes, folks that try the 46 (a direct-heated pentode that is often connected in triode) really seem to like it. By general consent, it sounds very much like a 45. How different does a triode-connected 6V6 sound from a 45? Good question. The 6V6 wa... | |
| 300b lovers 45’s are wonderful tubes. By measurement with a spectrum analyzer, possibly the best tube of all time, with a beautifully clean harmonic structure. Which is why the Mark I Karna’s used them as drivers. But ... NOS examples are now very rare, so i... | |
| $50k - $80k Budget…Opinions please. Thomas Meyer electronics. Smart guy, stunning build quality, and superb sound. Not in the same league as much more heavily advertised brands ... far above. | |
| 300b lovers Yeah, no way of knowing what Seattle will sound like. Might be stunning, might be not-great, no way of telling in advance. Shows are unpredictable. | |
| 300b lovers I was proposing "Blackbird" as a product name for the amps, and Don said it is not just black like a raven, but "Intergalactic" black, which cracked me up (literal LOL) when he told me over the phone. Looking forward to meeting him at the show in ... | |
| 300b lovers Charlie reached out to me and asked if I would like to be Technical Editor of Vacuum Tube Valley, and I happily agreed. First class bunch of people, including the irrepressible Eric Barbour, one of the most notorious curmudgeons in the industry ..... | |
| 300b lovers There’s nothing quite like twiddling with a speaker crossover or the critical components on an amplifier. That brings the guesswork to an end. You know what increasing the slew rate of an amplifier sounds like ... it’s a pretty distinctive sound, ... | |
| 300b lovers My concern for the customer experience might sound big-hearted, but actually it’s purely selfish. Neither Don nor I want ’em coming back. I am 100% retired, Don is thinking about it, and we both want the preamp and power amp to be reliable and goo... |