mink70
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What about a modded MF X-cans v3? Is it not in the same class as the SinglePower and Mapletree products?
Originally Posted by mink70 What about a modded MF X-cans v3? Is it not in the same class as the SinglePower and Mapletree products? |
Originally Posted by mink70 What about a modded MF X-cans v3? Is it not in the same class as the SinglePower and Mapletree products? |
Originally Posted by Sgt-Pluck + 1 for a modded X-Can. Try it with some 6N1P-EB tubes for speed, punch, airiness and just the right amount of warmth. Pluck |
Originally Posted by sacd lover Have you ever heard a transformer coupled amp? Because the stereotypes you offer are inconsistent with my experiences. OTL amps are not categorically softer, tubier or slower than any other tube amp. In fact, a good OTL can often be more alive and less colored than a similar transformer coupled amp. Nothing can potentially give you a warmer, slower and more colored sound than a transformer coupled amp using triodes .... particularly if the output transformers are of questionable quality and have limited bandwidth. Furthermore, this more solid state claim for transformer coupled amps, was mostly related to the fact most transformer coupled amps, that were manufactured in any of our lifetimes, used pentodes push/ pull with an Ultralinear circuit topology. The pentode tube itself definitely has a more solid state type of presentation compared to most triodes .... even if you run the pentode tube as a "strapped triode". Add the typical push/ pull Ultralinear circuit to pentode tubes and you will get a faster more solid state sound. But almost none of the amps we are discussing here use that topology. So, I believe, claiming a transformer coupled amp will have an inherently faster and more solid state presentation compared to an OTL design is just not true. |
Originally Posted by Gradofan2 Just the MG Head DT / OTL MK III in transfer coupled mode - which is definitely faster, and more dynamic, more like SS than the OTL mode, which is more lush, warm, euphonic. And Wu reported to me that his transformer coupled amps were faster, more dynamic than his OTL amps, which are by no means as slow and lush with the typical "tubey" sound, as some other tube amps. http://www.audioadvisor.com/store/pr...eadphone%20Amp |
Originally Posted by Gradofan2 Just the MG Head DT / OTL MK III in transfer coupled mode - which is definitely faster, and more dynamic, more like SS than the OTL mode, which is more lush, warm, euphonic. And Wu reported to me that his transformer coupled amps were faster, more dynamic than his OTL amps, which are by no means as slow and lush with the typical "tubey" sound, as some other tube amps. http://www.audioadvisor.com/store/pr...eadphone%20Amp |
Originally Posted by bobbyk /img/forum/go_quote.gif The earmax amp Dr Juggles refers to was quite slow in its presentation of music. I should know, he bought it from me. The amp he purchased was the original flinstone model. Some development has taken place since those original models came to the market and models such as the silver and anniversary edition are much more compulsive listening. They truely can hold their own. Well worth reviewing if you live in the UK and fancy the tubed route |