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In Reply to: The rebuttal has already been done. posted by Dan Banquer on June 13, 2006 at 10:41:37:
"The LNPA-150s sounds nothing like the typical hyper-detailed audiophile transistor amp"Let's examine this statement, shall we? He states that your amp sounds nothing like the typical SS amp, which means most of them. If your amps sounds as good as Lynn says, and Lynn seems to be a very straight shooter so I have no reason to doubt, then you have managed through skill or luck to do something nearly no one else has managed with this particular topology.
Personally, I think it probably has a to do with your voltage regulation and general power supply design. The ciruit you showed me was wholly unremarkable (and incorrect!). You also make claims about the grounding, I have no reason to doubt your amp is properly grounded so I believe you. You still never showed me a distortion spectrum to prove you only have 2nd order. Now independent source has measured it so I am not so sure I believe that claim.
The other question is why Lynn is comparing your amp to tube amps? Ones that surely measure much worse than yours, I am not sure why you want to quote this when you have stated more than once your disgust with tube electronics. Now your amp is being praised as sounding just like them!!! Ironic, isn't it?
I am sure that Soundmind would HATE the sound of your amp because it sounds just like SET or PP tube amps that he finds to be sonically and technically obsolete.
The truth is that so few people have actually heard your amp that no one knows for sure if you have really succeeded in the task of making a more musically compatible SS amplifier or if the resemblance is purely superficial and upon longer auditioning the result is not so astonishing afterall. I would be happy to give it a fair and unbiased review but if you are really going out of business I guess there is no point.
Other designers of SS gear have made amps they claimed were "tubelike" (not that you made this claim directly but using this quote from Lynn gives an implicit agreement) and it turned out upon serious auditioning that they were the worst of all worlds, they lacked the speed and impact of SS, and the easy transparency and harmonic correctness of tubes. I doubt that yours is like that but who would know, besides Lynn Olsen I guess?
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Follow Ups
- Re: The rebuttal has already been done. - morricab 05:36:54 06/15/06 (2)
- Two Issues - Dan Banquer 06:12:08 06/15/06 (1)
- Re: Two Issues - morricab 06:39:24 06/15/06 (0)
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