On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:30:15 GMT, mick wrote:

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 00:49:21 -0600, John Byrns wrote:

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The competition to see if a reasonable solid state facsimile of Andre's
300B KISS amp could be designed.

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Not getting involved with any argument over competitions, but this page is
interesting:
http://sound.westhost.com/project36.htm
The text accompanying Figure 3 points out that the design could be built
with a lot of 2H distortion. This may sound more like a 300B than SP's
design - but whether that is the point is something else... ;-)

I agree that Zen is likely to be more like KISS than is KISASS, but
(noting that Fig 3 is specifically described as 'not a real circuit')
to name a five-transistor amplifier as 'Death of Zen', is utterly
hilarious!

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