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Old 28th October 2010, 03:19 AM   #1
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Default The Blameless Power Amplifier.

The Signal Transfer Company: Compact Blameless Power Amplifier

any thoughts/heard one?

(i did a search with compact blameless , btw)
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Old 28th October 2010, 03:32 AM   #2
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Looks like a straight up copy of Self's Blameless, perhaps with minor tweaking. Quite a high component count, but performance looks pretty good.
The moot question: how does it sound?

If it's like the Self Blameless, it would be very clean, very stable and load tolerant, but somewhat unengaging.
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Old 28th October 2010, 05:56 AM   #3
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The performance was fine for me.
Pretty neat and very well performed.
Just a little bit of bad moments bad its still good.
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Old 28th October 2010, 10:39 AM   #4
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the Signal Transfer Co is the approved retail PCB supplier for D.Self's designs.

However, there is discussion in the Forum about a PCB layout error that severely compromises the circuit's potential performance.
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Andrew, could you please point me to mentioned discussion?
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Old 29th October 2010, 06:13 AM   #6
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I think it might be this one,
3 stage LIN topology - NFB tappings?

Have a read at post #44 for the PCB layout problem, but read it all.

As to the performance of the "blameless" amp, it's everything you might expect a good solid state amp to be, but for me ultimately I found it cold and musically uninvolving in it's presentation.
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