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Hey Tre!

I hear you. It boggles the mind how these threads just keep coming up. No one ever mentions how the DC coupled 2A3 amps in question sound, the arguments are always about the unproven claims of "performance", ridiculus invented "scientific" terms, unverifyable testing results and procedures, and junk science. I don't understand how Dennis and Jeff can't see that no one ever questioned how their amps sound. I'm really starting to believe this is some type of marketing scheme to gain product visiblity.

That said, have you ever thought about building one? If you look at SET amps in general, their distortion numbers are horrible. Yet people seem to love their sound. I know I do. Maybe this is another case where poor distortion sounds good to some people. At times I've thought about building one of them. Even thought the facts are that the HF will be rolled off from Miller effects, and that peuney sub-critical choke loaded power supply won't regulate worth a crap. Maybe all that signal filtering and distortion sounds good. High gm drivers allow for more current, but tend to pass more RF. Maybe that 12ax7 just doesn't allow higher freqencies to get through. I don't know, but sometimes I think about trying it out just to see.

I just long for the day when people stop all the nonsense claims about these products. I've given up on arguing with Jeff about it. In the end he'll just resort to namecalling.

Dan

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