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Trevor Wilson wrote:
"Bret Ludwig" wrote in message
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Trevor Wilson wrote:
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OK may be a dumb question, but could you use resistors to up the
resistance of 4 Ohm speakers so they could be driven by a 8Ohm
amp???
**Sure. Make certain your resistors are rated for half the power of
the
amplifier though (they may get very hot). Damping factor will go out
the
window and you'll throw away 50% of the amplifier power, but it will
work.
Personally, I don't see any value in buying *any* amplifier which
cannot
drive at least 4 Ohm loads.
An autoformer would work much better.
**Oh, please! Adding an autoformer to a solid state amp, is like sticking
a
fifth wheel to a Porsche. It is MUCH cheaper and far more effective to
increase the SOA (more output devices and heat sinking) of the output
stage,
than adding kilos of iron and copper. Autoformers (in 2006) are a waste
of
time money and mass. Transistors and aluminium (or fans) are cheap,
effective and light weight.
Tragic they sound so bad.
**Dream on. In a properly configured blind test, YOU can hear no problems
with a decently designed amp, which does not use autoformers.
....McIntosh solid state amps are the best
sounding solid state amps,
**Nope. Not even close. However, I'll bite. Explain, in as much detail as
you see fit, why you think the addition of an extra, unneeded component, to
an otherwise regular amplifier can improve sound quality. I look foreward to
your considered explanation.
but not as good as tube amps. Especially
triodes.
**More bull****. Triode amps and Pentode amps are fundamentally different.
However, the very best tube amps sound almost indistinguishable from
excellent solid state amps, when driving appropriate loads. I know. I've
actually taken part in blind tests, where I was unable to reliably identify
a really excellent tube amp and a really excellent solid state amp. Have
you?
Having said that, the current fashion for SET amps, is just that - a fashion
statement. SET amps have no redeeming qualities in high fidelity
applications.
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