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Re: You really don't get it!

Again, you are reading words into what I said and making many assumptions.

First, I have been reading IAR for better than 20 years. Don't really place anymore value in what Peter has to say than any other publication. Way too many 1A products over the years, soon to be displaced by yet another, you got it 1A product, for me to take him too seriously.

Second, you are assuming that I do not have the means to afford such a thing as VTL Reference products. If I wished to own such a product, I could and have many times in the past.

Third, I never said the VTL amp was garbage. What I said is there are many products in the market place that have huge price tags and are nothing more than garbage. Whether or not the VTL falls in this camp, I do not know since I have limited exposure to the VTL product.

Forth, running additional tubes in the output stage certainly is not less reliable than an amp with a bit fewer tubes that runs those power tubes rated at or beyond rated output. The VTL Reference amp does run the 6550 right at rated output after looking a bit more carefully at their spec. Not beyond their spec.(6550), but right at the limits. Given the choice of 4 more tubes, ala ARC Reference 600 to produce 500 watts, or the 12 in the VTL at 600 watts? For my money I would go with the ARC. Running power tubes at rated output is not a recipe for long term reliability. Not all of VTL's products run the output tubes that hard. This amp does. ARC did this same thing years ago and learned a valueable lesson. A couple more tubes run more conservately for the same output produces a far more reliable amp. Sure your chances of having a bum tube are greater with more tubes, but that is about it. One could be really conservative and state that anything more than a pair of power tubes it too much.


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