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In Reply to: RE: What the world needs is a good 10-12" LF driver for horns !! posted by Rafaro on January 31, 2016 at 12:41:55
... what Klipsch meant by "a *good* 5 watt amplifier"? How would he have defined *good* in this context?
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most of the amplifier manufacturers were engaged in 'power wars' such that the top-of-the-line amps of the day were sacrificing sound quality at low power levels in order to be able to publish higher wattage numbers in their marketing materials.
Again, just a guess.
As a person who prefers a few good watts, I stuck with all of the compromises one has to deal with when using high efficient speakers but I'll live. ;-)
... what Paul Klipsch wanted was a good sounding tube amp that was as quiet as a SS one. Low-noise performance must have seemed very important to him, or so I'd imagine.
Early SS amps were much noisier than tube, and Paul's quote made no mention of either tube or SS, probably because SS wasn't really in play yet. His comment was made when 10 to 30 watt amps were the most popular, and no one was interested in making a really high quality 5 watt amp, mainly because his were among the very few speakers that only needed 5 watts.
I read that his favorite amp was the Brooks sliding bias 2A3 PP amp.
Dave
Interesting, thanks. I did not know that early SS amps were that noisy.
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