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Re: Check the archives,Welborne's the winner.

Hi Steve

Probably not just *your* ears. I have been reading widely in an effort to decide on what topology to use. I have read Ron W paraphrased as saying the DRDs lack a little emotion and may be better with an active pre to add some soul. Thorsten, who seems to like his music presented clean but not ragged and who and is an advocate of the DRD topology, wrote recently that DRD is a little "thin" sounding.

Most of the positive comments on DRD relate to its uneditorialised presentation of music. Other people with different musical tastes, sound preferences, and systems may have different opinions...

Personally (thinking in somewhat arbitrary %ages), I feel a maxed-out DRD-style amp can get you about 80% of the very best possible at very reasonable cost. OTOH, if tonal density and palpability are what gets one going, there are better options perhaps... This is just my personal thinking at present, YMMV.

BTW, I have followed your designs and comments over the last couple of years; did you ever try a 417A w/ CCS, cap coupled to a 2A3 or 300B with a big grid choke on the output? Your thoughts?

Cheers
Raymond

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