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RE: Curcio vs Dyna?

Jeff,

Thanks for the rapid feedback.

Fully agree on hearing before purchase but that only works for me with mass produced, identical items. If you and I each built a component having only the transformers and circuit boards in common, they would sound differently. Perhaps subtly, maybe dramatically but most probably not indistinguishable from one another.

BUT... I can get close in that the driver circuitry is, essentially, identical to the driver board I installed in the premium Dyna MKIII's I used (and loved!) for some 20 years. The outputs are 6550's (again, as in the MKIII's) only doubled in numbers. It's almost a test bed of doubling the power and improving the quality of all of the coils, with a minimal alteration of the supporting circuitry.

I see your point about the Hammond transformers/chokes but it seems that this Magnequest line is proprietarily designed for this amp and available only from Curcio Audio. This doesn't overly bother me in that the price for 2 power transformers, 2 output transformers, and 2 chokes while high, (WAY more than I have ever spent for such items!!) it's very much in sync wit other Magnequest products.

In for a penny, in for a pound?


Bob Roemer

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