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Re: I think we could agree to say...

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Rich, I am really enjoying this debate, I hope it's not wearing you down.

It is obvious that the ZH-270 is not a typical OTL, but just by the fact that it does not have a output transformer, simply makes it a OTL by default, now what it is other than that should be another debate.

The reason there is something worth patenting here is that there are different ways of doing the same thing or getting the same results, Dave is able to get the same results of a conventional OTL while matching speaker impedances and a whole lot of other benefits, simply matching speaker impedance is not patentable, doing it in a OTL fashion is.

You make it sound like this design is a compromise, while in fact it's a true innovation in amplifier design, Hansen even made that comment.

Yes, in the Audio industry today, there are many Mars dust, voodoo spells, nonmetallic metal drawn from the breath of god, invisible sound force fields type products out there and it's getting damn hard to discriminate between magic and science.

Let me spell it out as I see it, because there is so much bunk out there and the Berning is so complicated and way over the wall in design, it seems more comfortable for the Status quo to put it into the "magic" realm to try and discredit it.
In fact they should really be glad a product like this came along, it shows that new technology can be put to a sound design like OTL's, bringing the OTL into the future, giving it life and excitement, the ZH-270 does not compete with the VZN-100's or the MA-2 but does compete with Solid State amps, someone buying a ZH-270 becomes a future potential buyer of a VZN-100 or a MA-2.

The ZH-270 is a easy amp to transcend the SS to tube move, it's light, cool and reliable, once the consumer has made the move to OTL in this manner, it's hard to move anywhere else but up the chain, and at $4995.00, there are plenty of options to move up to and at this time non being a Berning, a VZN-100 and MA-2 heaven.

Allan
David Berning Co


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