So I got a pair of these last week and I'm wondering what to expect from them. Anyone have these? Comments would be highly appreciated since I won't be running them until the late fall due to the extra heat they make.
These have fantastic specs but I was told elsewhere they achieve those by using lots of feedback and some other tricks that make them sound bland. They came with a pair of QUAD ESL-57's which I was hoping would be a match made in heaven.
These have fantastic specs but I was told elsewhere they achieve those by using lots of feedback and some other tricks that make them sound bland. They came with a pair of QUAD ESL-57's which I was hoping would be a match made in heaven.
I believe that this is one of the few amplifiers that uses the McIntosh Unity-Coupled output configuration.
This is an ultra-low distortion tube amp. If you are looking for a colored sound from this amplifier, I don't think that's what you will be getting. They claim .0015% distortion at 35W.
Again, this is a great amplifier, but I wouldn't expect it to sound anything like an SE 300B amp. It's going to have a very low Zout and practically no distortion.
This is an ultra-low distortion tube amp. If you are looking for a colored sound from this amplifier, I don't think that's what you will be getting. They claim .0015% distortion at 35W.
Again, this is a great amplifier, but I wouldn't expect it to sound anything like an SE 300B amp. It's going to have a very low Zout and practically no distortion.
Yes, 80dB of feedback at 1kHz.
It's certainly worth a listen, but not what I would want to use!
The thread title rang a bell and now I recall looking for one of these amplifiers back when I got into tube/hifi (tube guitar amps before that), around 2007. I think I had some wild idea about building no-NFB push-pull amp around those output transformers.
Nice score
Nice score
I had a very similar wild idea. I ended up buying the Plitron Unity-Coupled output transformers and doing just that! It was a really fun project.
Of course, it has a lot more distortion than this Krohn-Hite amplifier here.