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In Reply to: RE: incorrect on all counts posted by madisonears on July 23, 2015 at 10:22:38
They were designed by a knowledgeable man who had zero commercial interest99% of the active circuitry of the amp was designed by Texas Instruments and found in two ICs. Adding a power supply, a handful of support resistors, caps, connectors and cabinet doesn't constitute very much.
I can assure you that TI most definitely has *commercial interest*. :)
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Reductio ad absurdum, in fact. I'm well aware he didn't design the chips. Actually, the chips were designed by National Semiconductor, not TI, and they're superb. Nothing wrong with chips, unless you're stuck in the past. It's all about implementation, layout, and passive component values and quality. You can't shake a box full of IC's and get a decent amp, much less a superlative one. I spent a couple years experimenting with that handful of caps and resistors to get the best combination: copper foil/PP film caps, naked Vishay's, no magnetic parts, etc.
I have to concur that i have heard good implementation of chip amps , well better than most would think , best with speakers of hi sensitivity and efficiency , the sound belies their low cost and size.
Regards
Your use of the word "designer" stretches reality.
He implemented the amplifier. :)
Did your amp's designer design the tubes? I specifically used the word implementation.
That's all you took away from that last post? I'm done.
Sorry, I was responding to this comment: They were designed by a knowledgeable man who had zero commercial interest
Did your amp's designer design the tubes?
There is a vast difference between someone who designs an amp using their choice of active devices, passive support circuitry AND topology via either individual semiconductors and/or tubes vs. one who has ZERO control over a canned highly complicated integrated circuit.
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