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In Reply to: RE: OTL amps rule! posted by needtubes on October 18, 2014 at 09:51:58:
"Have you compared its sound to any other OTL amps?"
I've built another totem-pole OTL using two 6C33Cs, designed by Hans Beijner, and a circlotron using four EL509s, by Alan Kimmel. Also, a totem-pole based on an old design by Dickie and Macovski, using four 6082s.
I'm not very good at hearing differences between amplifiers; I seriously doubt that I could reliably distinguish them apart under double-blind conditions. (Or indeed, any amplifier that is not suffering from some gross defect!) Of course when one knows what one is listening to, hearing differences is easy.
Anyway, I can certainly say that the sound is excellent, and stands up well against anything else I have heard. I suppose in general tube OTLs could be expected to sound more like solid-state amplifiers than tube amplifiers with transformers, simply because they lack the colourations that could be introduced by the output transformers.
Chris
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