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| How does OTL amp get its power? Hello,While Athmaspere OTL amplifiers are superb, and no question about it! I still wish to have fairness to other OTL designers who do not participate in on-line forums. One of them is Jud Barber of Joule-Electra. Not many audio designers have so... | |
| otl vs push/pull let me be the lonely voice, so far, to suggest you to try Jud Barber's Joule-Electra OTL amplifiers. I do not know that many designers in this industry who received as many prestigeous award (e.g. Golden Ear by Harry Pearson of TAS, something else... | |
| which tube mono blocks? Oh well, its easy - look at one of Joule-Electra OTL monoblock (or AthmaSphere) you can afford and the end of it. If you never matched OTL with electrastatics then you never been in heaven!Good Luck! | |
| ICE amps need cooling? Just for the record. Current generation of Spectron amplifiers do not use switching power supplies. I will not go into reasons, sorry. | |
| Is it good to drive the magnepan 3.6? "It sees half as much impedance because it has to supply twice as much current for a given voltage"Well if voltage is given but current is doubled then impedance should drop to the half - BUT it cannot be because speaker impedance does not depend ... | |
| Spectron V-Cap Upgrade "They" use both TFTT and OIMP. However, if you will try to install yourself you will loose the warranty and simply even if you will be able to do it - you will make a lot of damage - you will have to strip amp to its "naked" motherboard and if you... | |
| Is it good to drive the magnepan 3.6? Answers to your questions:" I was wondering, if I "bridged" my power amp to function as "monoblocks" to drive a pair of magnepan 3.6. Will it cause the amplifier to "see" a 2-ohm load? Does that stress the amplifier's current capacity and will the... | |
| New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF Hello Kal,-Always read your reviews with great interest. Thank you. You may be not aware but Spectron Audio mentioned your reviews of Tripath based Bel Canto amplifiers as an excellent illustration of some boring engineering points. | |
| Joule electra Pre Amp -tube rolling Hello guys,What tubes do you recommend for his LA-150 MkII preamp?Thanks in advanceSimon | |
| What do you think of Elrod PC's? Dear Sherod,In my zeal I completely neglected to mention that David Elrod works on new products to be perfect fit not only for Spectron amplifiers (and as user "Spectron" it is my main concern, obviously) but also to all other high quality solid s... | |
| What do you think of Elrod PC's? Dear Sherod,"I often wonder what Mr. Elrod is doing these days"David Elrod is working with Spectron Audio, day and night, to produce the best interconnects and speaker cables in the world to match very stringent requirements of Spectron Audio flag... | |
| Spectron Musician III SE Mk.2? What Changed? Please note that AuduogoN placed in "Industry News" the press-release of Spectron Audio in regard to the new model, Musician III SE Mk2Sincerely,Simon | |
| Spectron Musician III SE Mk.2? What Changed? Hello Oofer,When we were ready (and not earlier!) - we send announcement of the release of new product to Audio Circle (manufacturer's section) and Audiogon-Industry Info - where its more appropriate to announce new products rather then in the mid... | |
| Spectron Musician III SE Mk.2? What Changed? Hello,Sorry could not get not back earlier. I will post information describing the changes we made in Mk2 in a few day as I am very busy at the moment.My reply to BR who is asking "what am I paying more money for" is that most definitely its not f... | |
| Spectron Musician III SE Mk.2? What Changed? Dear Oofer,There are two changes:a) it sounds better then Mk1b) its price increased.No other changes - the weight is the same, the color is unchanged, the frontpale the same, even screws are the same.I hope it helps,Simon |