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RE: My quote was accurate. And it explains well why he makes a variety of amps...

"His SIT amps are just another flavor, perhaps meant to cater to those who prescribe to the no feedback dogma. He is a businessman, after all, who also happens to have mind open to experimentation and different approaches."

-No, it isn't another flavor, he is striving for a benchmark that hasn't been met or exceeded by anything SS.
That is why he is experimenting with virtually unobtainable exotic transistors in hopes to achieve some of the traits of the triode.
He posts quite regularly at DIYAudio, perhaps you should ask him yourself.

"He is a businessman, after all"

-Just like the folks at Hypex, who aren't the first to exploit the ignorant masses with misleading advertising specifications.
This has been going on since the dawn of SS with the power wars. More this, less that...
It got so bad that the federal government had to step in and apply a power testing regiment for 2 channel amps and fined manufacturers who weren't truthful about their power ratings.

On a side note, I have a 2000 watt home theater in a box for sale, you interested?

The sad reality Kirby, is that pulse width modulating amplifiers reproducing low frequencies will compromise high frequency reproduction and are extremely sensitive to speaker loads.

I am not aware of any SS amp out there that can reproduce consonants the way the old triode can, all of them ruin the sibilance.
Once you are aware of this, it becomes the elephant in the room, the triode will completely ruin any further SS experience. You will hear the high order distortions on every "S" sound.

Maybe somebody has a nice SS amp out there somewhere, but I can guarantee it won't be a Class D amplifier, lol! and it won't be cheap or practical compared to a little SET that need only cost a couple a grand tops.


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