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I am looking for an amplifier to drive my ribbon tweeters.
The xover is active 24db/octave @ 10Khz.
I was wondering if anybody heard this amplifier.
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Had an extended loan to audition Jumping Cactus Speakers with a Marchand tube crossover as well. The 26s drove the tweeters and sounded fabulous. I also used them to drive my own big BR/Horn system. I don't think you can buy an EL-84 amp anywhere near the price that sounds as good.
Thank you for the info.
I am having problems reaching him via Email.
Does the price on his site is for one monoblock?
Yes. Price is for one.
Interesting design. It uses a switching supply to get the HV & possibly filament voltages. The only concern is the use of a switch mode supply inducing HF noise into sensitive tweeters.But Mr. Marchand knows audio engineering and designs good stuff so I'm sure his switch mode supply is quiet.
Why not give him a call or EMAIL and ask him about the switch mode supply.
For ribbon tweeters you might also want to look at the Bottlehead SETs.
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"The only concern is the use of a switch mode supply inducing HF noise into sensitive tweeters."
I've yet to hear any amplifier with a switching power supply that I thought sounded right at the top of the frequency range.
Todd,Don't worry about Gusser. He has two consistent deficiencies. (1) He has heard not what he comments on, and (2) he is an E.E. with the routine training only, thinks "in the box" only.
Sort of a great laughable example on both counts.
Jeff Medwin
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Why do you find it necessary to insult the majority of electrical engineers? Do you seriously believe that someone who has undergone a degree course and has managed to qualify in such a rigorous discipline has inferior intellectual capacity and can only think within strictly confined limits? Do you resent that they can see right through you?
Before you start jumping to concusions, no, I'm not an EE.
heh-heh-heh...Just like when Tucker made the mistake of setting up an exhibition across the street from an SAE gathering. He put up a velvet rope well back from the car.
That wasn't a bad use for salvaged Cord transmissions...though present Cord owners may tend to disagree.
cheers,
Douglas
Friend, I would not hurt thee for the world...but thou art standing where I am about to shoot.
"Don't worry about Gusser. He has two consistent deficiencies."
I wouldn't go there......... If one likes how products with switching power supplies perform, I'd be happy that he likes it. My response was merely to say that not everybody likes them. No harm, no foul.
I have tried switch mode power supplies in tube gear more than once for filament power. I have never been sucessfull. The problem is not interestingly enough the HF hash. This can be filtered and is mostly out of the audio band in any significant amplitude. Plus with seperate cathodes, it's shielded even more.The problem is most switchers have nasty non uniform (read can't cancel out) 60hz or 120hz spikes from the input rectifier / filter. This is impossible to eradicate on an OEM supply. Perhaps if someone designed an "audio grade" switcher you could deal with that. And it seems Phil Marchand may have done just that.
So for my tube gear I stick with EI transformer supplies. My SS audio gear uses toriod linear supplies. Sometimes a switcher will sneak in if I have CPU/DSP requirements needing several amps at +5 or +3.3 volts such as my latest project. A DSP based sub woofer processor.
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Expensive but quite good.
Oh yeah! I have used those in a commercial device once. But they aren't cheap. IIRC, the company grew from an audio power amplifier group of engineers.
Not like tube technology that stopped in 1959. There are advancements as long as you are not continually listening to $5 chinese power supplies.
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