Painful Reality

I'll add that to the list of reasons for why I am an europhile.

A quite simple one... "If you have to ask... forget about it..."

Anything by Django.

All the experience in the world just goes down the drain the moment you own a Pat Metheny record. Life is unfair but... heh!

I reckon. Spent way more than that on some shitty Aussie wines (Sci-Fi Boy would probably call it "wines with impurity") over the last 4 months.

No bass, harsh high, horrible midrange. $130 worth of shitty sound.

Mostly because: I wanted a low heat amp for the western australian climate. My tube amps still have to be converted to 240 V line voltage. Note to self... never follow the herd.

I received my unit last week. Sucks big time with my Lamhorns 1.8 (16 ohms load). Hopefully it will be better on my CWs. But as of now, color me unimpressed with the new cheapo hype.

I've been realizing lately that tubes and Western Australian weather do not mix well.

You seems to prove your own point pretty well... Might better stick to Dr Pepper.

Max Reading your review makes me realize the Bose 901 might be the perfect speaker for Pat Metheny "whining whales" style of pseudo jazz.

Another gem from Sci-Fi Boy. Considering we've yet to find a system that gives you this elusive "accurate reproduction" it has everything to do with flavor and preference (except when it comes to Bose and KR tubes of course). Now go rent Battle Star Galactica Season XYZ, have a Dr Pepper and let the grown up play between themselve.

Since you're mentionning it... The Kung Fu Grip was for sissies.

You started a freakin thread on Bose speakers in an Audio forum for Christ's sake. What did you expect from that? A "100%-two-thumps-up-whoopee-you're-so-right" type of answer by everyone? The only other thing I can think of in order to systematically get your a_ss kicked is to wear a Spandau Ballet t-shirt in a Hells Angel convention. Oh wait, maybe attending Jerry Falwell's funeral wearing a Tinky Winky outfit might also cause an equivalent stir. Everybody knowledgeable knows that the only thing below Bose in the Great World of Audio is a KR tube.

I'm alive and rather well. We're starting our 2 months in Perth. Heck of a nice city with an excellent musical scene. We're still in an appartment hotel since our furniture haven't cleared customs so no Klipsch and no tubes yet. I've realized that you have to be away from Quebec winters to realize how much they suck. We've just rented a nifty house that would be k-horn friendly...

It's a good value until this POS goes "poof". Cheap things are... well... cheap.

...Please?

Thanks, The wood of the cobalt amp was birdeye maple. I recycled the chassis with my new YASA amp (Yet Another SET Amp). That belong to a past life though as I rarely heat the solder iron now. It was a fun period but having a cottage business while having a day job makes for being inneficient at both places while missing too many "opportunity windows" with the missie.

Playing with the plate current and the plate voltage is something any designer and DIYer will do. You won't double the power output by playing with these. "Different impedence" is the keyword. My guess is that he's running his amp with an output transformer with a lower primary impedance than what is recommended (typically 5K). He's probably running it with a 2.5K or so. This will increase the power (not double it) but will also increase the distortion. He surely didn't invent this. He is an electrical engineer ,and said that most people get boxed in with the standard application and don't have the knowledge to do anything different to a tube. Sounds like a typical statement of an audio guru doing poor marketing. "I am the keeper of a mysterious knowledge that people aren't ready to learn yet".

Thanks for the link. But again the closest thing to an explanation of this 4 W instead of 2 W is the following paragraph. Roger has also redesigned the circuity so that the 45 tube generates 4 watts!!!!!!!!!!!! not 2 watts which every other 45 amp produces... Roger designs his SET amps to produce twice the power of anyone else's SET amps by redesigning the circuits... adjusting plate voltages and other values... he went back to the earliest SET designs from the late 1920's and early 1930's and found that the earliest designers did not develop the circuits to it's full potential... almost every current SET designer uses the "values" of those earliest designs to base their own designs on... which Roger feels are fundamentally flawed in terms of their understanding of how to "safely" utilize a given tubes performance potential... let me mention that Roger is very concerned with maximizing tube life and designs all of his amps so the tubes are never stressed and play in their optimal ranges for the longest life That is quite Raelian in essence. The guy who wrote this is basically spouting what he was told, not knowing if it's pure fiction or not. To be fair I hate 45 SET amps with a passion. They're closely associated with the "deeeeeetails first" crowd. The kind of guys that will be only aiming to hear Patricia Barber scratching her left ear on the second verse of track 9 on Café Blue. To me they sound like inserting a compressor in the signal chain. You might get away with a really small room (and I mean reall small) but I would doubt someone can enjoy Rust Never Sleep with these.

Are you saying to us that the quest for the accuracy of timbre in hi-fi might be a never ending one? You see me shocked!

Do not try a 2A3 SET amp with Magneplanar. It will sucks.

You mean this? Q: How do you get twice the power without hurting the tubes? A: Roger A. Modjeski, our designer, has always created new applications for tubes in his amplifiers and preamps. These applications are generally not the ones given in the RCA tube manual that most other designers use. Those applications are only suggestions and are not the final word. The range of possible applications is limitless and Roger enjoys exploring this realm creating new applications. The standard application of the 45 results in 10 watts of dissipation. This later became the rating for the tube. Interestingly enough, plate dissipation is not given in the early manuals. Roger has the complete set of RCA manuals from RC 11 to RC 29. In the RM-245 Rogers application uses a slightly lower plate current and a slightly higher plate voltage with the average dissipation being 8 watts. The common RCA application is 10 watts (the maximum recommended). One of Rogers conditions is always to run below max dissipation in all his amplifiers. That is not an explaination but a white paper infomercial. He may gain some output power by lowering the plate load at the expense of raising the distortion. Even then, he won't double the output power.

You went multichannel in your cupboard???? I think PWK would have recommended more than 6 inches of clearance between the Khorns and the center channel.

Freakin' double post...