paulfolbrecht
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| SET vs OTL Martykl,You really can't ask a question like that without specifying your desired loudness level. 80 dB vs 100 dB - 10x the power!I recently spent some time driving the 90 dB/W DeVore Super 8 with a pair of 45 monoblocks. I tried it at first just ... | |
| Bottlehead seduction vs minimax phono You've apparently already made up your mind. What's the reason for the change? | |
| SET vs OTL I agree with Bill's ordering of the triodes except that I've never heard a 50. 300B can be done well (I learned recently I really like the JE Labs 76/6SN7/300B circuit) but bad implementations outnumber the good, it seems! The thickened midbass an... | |
| SET vs OTL Martykl, if there is one maker of SETs that could be called LUSH, it's Cary. Even their 2A3s are lush, which I'd have thought impossible to do.You're description of SET bass is especially off in regards to the 45, by the way: very, very tight low ... | |
| SET vs OTL Martykl, no properly built single-ended 45 amp is lush in any sense into appropriate speakers.Have you heard any? Which do you call lush? | |
| Sumiko Blackbird They're freaking awesome.Quiet, detailed but never edgy, super tracking, smooth mids, tight bass.Very hard to beat under $1K.Course mine's for sale. | |
| SET vs OTL Ralph,Yes, there are studies that show even-ordered harmonics as musically consonant, but I do believe some of them or other also showed lower amounts - like 3% - to be inaudible.It is very easy to keep THD down well, well below 3% - more like .1%... | |
| SET vs OTL Aarif,It is true that there are studies indicating that a 'natural spectrum' of harmonics - which includes even-ordered components - sounds better/more natural to our sound processing systems (brains) than the same signal with only the odd-ordered... | |
| Red Wine 30.2 Power amp Glory,I'm interested in your impressions as well.I owned a RW Sig 30. It is an excellent, excellent amp - the closest thing to SET I'd found. But I found it a bit dark and closed-in; not as holographic nor as harmonically correct as good SET amps.... | |
| SET vs OTL I meant to say "but to say that the <1% of 2nd-order harmonic added by a SET at moderate volumes on appropriate speakers *is what causes this harmonic richness*, when studies have shown up to three times that amount is not audible, just doesn't... | |
| SET vs OTL Is it possible that the reason SET tends to sound harmonically richer than a push-pull OTL amp is that the latter has a phase splitter that causes information to be lost?After all, when we speak of 'SET vs OTL', what we mean is single-ended transf... | |
| Matching with Audio Note speakers Of course AN/Es are voiced with SETs and probably do sound 'best' with SETs. However, to me, 'next-best' to SET is the chip amps - gain clones and Tripath. These amps will give you something pretty close to SET sound with lots of power if you need... | |
| Revisiting Digital? Johnnyb53,It could well come down to phase - and/or several other things too, as suggested.I just don't think that resolution is a big part at all of what's 'wrong' with digital because the fact is that it just can't get things like instrument ton... | |
| which dvd for under 1k Yes - just a little funny - here we are discussing DVD players in the analog forum, after all.(NOT that I am with the forum police!) | |
| Revisiting Digital? I don't think it's resolution - cause I tried SACD for a while and it couldn't equal vinyl either.I think it's jitter/noise/other issues that plague the A/D and D/A processes and I think we're a long way from fixing it. |