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Todd was cool enough to let me borrow the FET-A for a week and take it to the SoFlo meet with me. Here are some of my thoughts:

I listened in a few different environments in my home set up through the duet, in Boomana's rig with the exemplar cdp and at the SoFlo meet with the philips cdp that was APL modded. Phones were the AT AD2000s, Sony R10s and W2002s.

Across all of the set ups I felt as though the fet-a was very transparent and had a fast leading edge with great dynamics. Details were well presented as Diana Krall and Jacqui Naylor's live releases had plenty of hall presence complete with spacial information as well. It rocked out well with plenty of PRaT as previously mentioned by Al, Led Zeps Ramble On had me air drumming couch/air drumming as did Rage Against the Machine's Killing in the Name Of. The next test for me was could it present small combo jazz well as that is 50% + of my listening content. The fet-a did well presenting Kenny Burrell's Chitlens Con Carne with smokey goodness as well as presenting the interplay between Scott LaFaro and Bill Evans on Waltz for Debby well.
Is it the perfect amp, well no I'm not sure one exists and certainly not in the sub $1000 category but the TTVJ Fet-A punches well above its weight and represents a great value. I would also like the aestics to be better but at this price point I'd take the plainer looks to save a few hundred. Overall I highly recomend this amp.