Say what M
Transistors And there was me thinking you are a dyed in the wool valve man!
5W of class A should be nice.
I note there were no power outputs or damping factors in the spec sheet which appear some what remiss for a commertial design.
The front panel and aggressive heat sinks make it a love or hate asthetics, ohh and there's the $5900 price tag so it's aiming at your second and third tier buyers.
I take it you've heard it??? or is this the first audition?
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Agreed, an interesting choice for mr kajak - I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't like it. For subs should be great though.
WRT DF, spec says >1000. Also is specced to drive 2ohms. Distortion is specced at 0.001%.
What do the above numbers mean?
The amp uses a ton of feedback, that's for sure, to acheive the high DF and low distortion.
Traditionally, lot's of feedback will give a sonic signature that is, lean, clean and very SS sounding.
So far I haven't been able to get a very high feedback SS design to sound really listenable for the long term.
Spent the last 2 years on a super low distortion high FB design that was eventually put on the shelf.
Generally, they initially impress with lots of detail + resolution but after a while you get fatigued. I think this
is like the Halcro amps. A lot of people bought them but I believe many sold them after a period.
My latest zen amp goes back to old school and uses -no- feedback anywhere / is completely open loop. Input to output.
I've been testing one channel on the bench and results are interesting. Where as the open loop design will make more
distortion than a high FB design, it has other attributes that are pretty impressive. Bandwidth goes out to 1MHz (without RF
filters). It also clips much like a valve guitar amp, super smooth and rounded, no nasties at all.
I'd be interested to hear Marios opinion on the SGS.
cheers
T