"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 17:51:06 -0500, "Robert Morein"
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Thu, 1 Jan 2004 11:40:47 -0500, "Robert Morein"
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"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 12:10:51 -0500, "Robert Morein"
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The sound of the traditional MOSFET circuit has both followers and
detractors, to which I add my personal observation that they
complement
metal dome tweeters very well, but are not as good with fabric
types.

Absolute bolllocks! As with bipolars and even a select few tube
amps,
a good amp sounds like a good amp, i.e. it sounds like its input
signal. They all sound the same, hence they don't 'complement' any
particular kind of tweeter.

No they don't all sound the same. Otherwise, you could get rid of your
KSA-50 and get a good Japanese receiver.

Indeed I could - but it might struggle to drive my 3-ohm speakers.

You have only one set of speakers?

No, the other ones are driven by an Audiolab 8000P, a Denon PMA350II
and a Rotel RA920AX, so I spread the honours pretty evenly around the
world! :-)

BTW, the Krell and Audiolab sound excactly the same on the big
Apogees, but the Audiolab gets very hot after a while.
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Stewart Pinkerton | Music is Art - Audio is Engineering

IMHO, topologies do make a difference:
1. cold running, precision biased bipoloar
2. high-bias bipolar
3. MOSFET, traditional
4. MOSFET, transnova topology

We're both arguing from personal experience, but I submit that I have the
"white crow", ie., that my personal opinion contains the exception that
breaks your rule.

I could listen to any number of amplifiers, yet my argument couldn't be
completely nullified -- at "worst", I would have to concede that the
groupings are sloppy. Your argument is somewhat more vulnerable to an "aha"
experience.