In Reply to: RE: no argument - no problem posted by Medium Jim on February 2, 2012 at 08:19:48:
"Damping Factor: 17. Damping factor may be changed internally by adding current feedback."
Oh the Marantz has feedback for sure.
BTW. I have owned three different EL34 based amps in the past. Jolida JD501A, Golden Tube Audio SE100, Cary CAD-280SA V12. I know what this tube sounds like in UL and triode mode.
Name me 10 SS amps that are as good, especially for soundstage realism and tone, as top tube amps.
I can give you a head start: Edge NL reference (presumably the other NL range amps can as well), darTZeel NHB108. That's about it. Not Pass (maybe his new firstwatt amps though but they are designed like tube amps), Not Soulution, not Krell, Levinson etc. There is a strange one from the east called Technical Brain that has a chance.
"Given your rhetoric, how much distortion does an amp with 1/10th the rated distortion yours has at less than full power? "
Illogical statement as it depends on the circuit design. Amps with feedback have very different distortion vs. power curves from amps without feedback.
Again, you seem to think that I am saying your amps are crap but that is not the case.
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