Cornscala?
It's worth noting that in the tube days PWK endorsed one amp, the
Brook, which was a triode design but was push-pull. He actually had a
mod which was a damping factor mod for the model that he preferred
which Brook offered.
IMO this type of amplifier is best for highly efficient horn
speakers, I consider single ended amplifiers good only for treble
drivers in multi-amp, active crossover systems. No one makes such a
push pull, choke driver triode amp commercially. The twiode ****s
aren't interested either.
Twiode ****s? Really?
Those people are having fun with audio. God bless 'em.
This whole idea that people who can't solder can't be audiophiles, or
that people who enjoy triodes are "****s" is really getting old. This
is supposed to be a fun hobby, and people like you who claim
audiophiles are killing audio are really missing the point. DIY is
only one aspect of audio...the other is the enjoyment of music.
I call them "twiode ****s" because although they have learned to
solder, they have no more than the most rudimentary electronics
skills, nor do they want to improve, but more importantly they are
utterly impervious to common sense. They are like Mme. d'Urfe, deluded
by the Casanovas on the sensible grounds that if he hadn't fleeced the
fools surely someone else would have.
The common single ended triode amplifier is a disaster when used full
range, but they do it and like it. The fidelity is nil. You can't tell
them that. What the three watt SET does when hooked to a normal
speaker is to compress and round off the music, coloring it greatly.
Can the triode tube give excellent fidelity when used properly? Of
course it can, and I am not disparaging it. The problem is they are
not doing so.
You can enjoy music without being an audiophile, and in fact the
great majority of music fans and musicians themselves are NOT
audiophiles per se. And you need not necessarily even be a music lover
to be an audiophile, though most are. They are two different things
you, not I, insist on confusing. But being an audiophile means having
a hands on interest in the technology, "Theorie und Praxis" so to
speak. If you just want music you can go to Best Buy and be perfectly
happy, and in fact probably ought to if audiophilia bothers you.
That is why the high end audio saloons quit sponsoring music events:
the music lovers show up and are perfectly happy with a 1980s Sansui
receiver and a pair of garage sale speakers. They buy nothing.
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