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Originally Posted by Skylab  Roam, you may well know more about this than the rest of us, but it's a real shame that we won't learn from you, since you are so incredibly and unnecessarily obnoxious in your posts.
If you have something to contribute, please try to behave in a civil fashion. Otherwise, please leave this place alone.
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Originally Posted by drarthurwells He tells it like he sees it, without reservation.
Give me that anyday over the sneaky and passive-aggressive snipes, concealing deceit and venom, more frequently seen.
Roam is a breath of fresh air.
I am sure most commerical amp designs are compromised in design integrity by cost cutting needs.
The trick is to get good sound in spite of design and part limitations.
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Originally Posted by Skylab I respectfully disagree that he is a "breath of fresh air" - hurling insults is not needed. But perhaps I am in the minority. In any case I don't care that much - I'm out of this discussion.
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I didn't mean to suggest that you were wrong about Roam - I believe as you do that he is rude in some posts, and think most people would agree.
I just like an up-front and direct person who speaks his mind regardless of how little this mind produces or how wrong it is. Roam is telling the truth as he sees it with no deceit - what he says may be false but not knowingly so on his part.
Roam finds very few amps that meet his personal and idealized design characteristics. Obviously many audio engineers, who are paid to produce amps that sound good (where nobody would pay Roam to do this) would not agree with Roam's personal design requirements.
I know two amps, that Roam says have terrible designs, the Bada 12 and the Doge, have superb sound.
Some amps control the tubes so much that the amp imposes its own sound on the tubes, so that changing tubes does not result in big sound changes.
The Bada 12 and Doge change sound drastically with tube changes - the design of the amp allows the sound of the tubes to come out and not be choked. In such amps, the tubes used are more important to the sound than the amp - you can dial in the sound you want good or bad.
I enjoy the point of view that Roam offers on amp design as entertaining, but don't believe for one moment that his remarks on design define how the amp actually sounds.
Departures from Roam's ideals of amp designs, which Roam calls stupid and idiotic designs, might have been purposefully accomplished by audio engineers, to achieve some positive sonic effect which Roam doesn't appreciate.
If it were Mark Levison or Nelson Pass saying the things Roam said, I would pay attention.
