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Re: Well, just one fool's opinion...

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Jeff Lessard

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In Reply to: Well, just one fool's opinion... posted by Phil Sieg on February 28, 2002 at 15:35:54:

Well let me disagree with you!
I had, still have and will always have SETs at home, I love them. I had 45, 300B, VT52, 2A3 based amps with most MQ irons air gapped, parafeed permalloy and parafeed cobalt trannies. I also had a 2A3 PP with an insterstage phase splitter since Ole Gizmo and Lynn Olson got me curious about this topology.
As good as all these amps were (and boy the cobalt 2A3 amp was really good) none could rival in delicacy and low-level retrival and musicality than the pair of Tenor Audio 15W OTL I have at home. These OTL are just plainly incredible, especially with my Lamhorns.

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Hi, Jeff... - Phil Sieg 05:51:39 03/01/02 (3)
and this is what makes horse races. I haven't heard the Tenor so I'll defer. (BTW, their site is just so much marketing BS. A little info on the circuit itself would be nice. The sentence, "No technical white paper can fully describe how our amplifiers preserve the music's natural Harmonic Structural Integrity (H.S.I.)", sets off my bullshit alarm big time. Acronyms over substance.)
Were any of your SET amps constructed with a DHT driver a la Sakuma-san? All transformer coupled? If not, IMO, you haven't heard the best the topology has to offer yet. But, as always, YMMV.
- Re: Hi, Jeff... - Jeff Lessard 07:43:06 03/01/02 (2)
  I am not really into horse racing...
  Yep, marketing is marketing... You won't escape it. Everyone sell the best amp in the world.
  As for the acronym thing... just for a reminder:
  DHT
  SET
  PPDHT... ;-)
  The only way to judge is with our own ears.
  - Re: Hi, Jeff... - Phil Sieg 08:17:03 03/01/02 (1)
    As for the acronym thing... just for a reminder:
    DHT
    SET
    PPDHT... ;-)
    Yes, but we know what these things are. Conversely, I wouldn't know an HSI if it bit me on the arse. ;-)
    - Re: Hi, Jeff... - Jeff Lessard 12:24:23 03/01/02 (0)
      Who knows... maybe in twenty years from now every tube head will know about HSI. But then again maybe not...
      Anyway... The way an item makes music is why I'll buy. I don't care the marketing.

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