"Wally" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:

Okay, so what speakers are you *likely* to drive with it? (The
Paladins?)

Hah! You don't believe me then?

Any time you want to post a pic of the Air Scouts next to your other gear,
I'm up for looking at it... ;-)


Er, camera battery needs recharging....





I don't need any more slam/loud - I want to hear this 'triode sound'
for myself.

I wasn't meaning slam-type loud - just loud to the extent that instruments
are at a realistic level, but without the valves going heavily non-linear.


I'm not getting into this 'linearity' thing until I've heard a triode amp
(built, bought, borrowed or blagged) on my own setup.

I've been promised 'holographic' sounds blowing everything else into the
weeds. I already get/have got a superb 'soundstaging', imaging and depth
from a number of PP valve amps (far superior to any SS amp I've ever heard,
including Meridian and Krell amongst many others and I gotta say I'm
curious....




I'm reliably informed by a number of sources that triodes
blow everything else away and that, once heard, nothing else comes
close.

I'd like to know what it is about them that's supposed to make them so
much
better.


Me too - this 'linearity of triodes' for one thing, but the amp I'm hoping
to build has other features (direct coupled and posh/expensive components)
which are supposed to contribute to the sound quality.



... I get 'normal' listening at 9 o'clock on my
20wpc amp, but it starts to lose the plot at about 11 o'clock - IOW,
it starts to bug me before it bugs the neighbours...

Sounds like you need to get the soldering iron out as well then!

My plans are a little more involved than making a more powerful amp. :-)


I'm talking about a 4 watt amp here, Wally......

;-)