Another bit of amusing & totally confused & twisted B.S., thanks
for making my day! These twits are really somethin', ain't they?
Let me get this straight: SET designs a la Techne-Fetishist-Retard
school of audio/mystic/fuckupism are superior to "conventional"
PP designs for playing selective distortion cancellation games
because the output stage of a PP amp is less load dependent
& the distortion cancellation mechanism is "independent" of
the load in operation... I like the Techne-Fetishist school
of dork SET design. Take some funky, absolutely unobtainium
DHT transmitting triode (OK, you can find 'em, but you've got
to sell off the family jewels just for the downpayment), maybe
even one with incredible sonic potential. Now, carefully throw
it all away by doing the following: 1) Use some shit power pentode
as the driver. 2) Use some shit noisy & unreliable little RF
triode before that, like a 417A/5842 or even a WE437, which
may even be a small-signal pentode. Which I think the fad is
to triode connect, but it's hard to pay too much attention to
stupid fads to get it entirely straight, so forgive any possible
inaccuracies on my part! 3) Don't forget to transformer couple
the shit power pentode to maximize your sonic misery. "Flipping
the Bird", or what Nobu Shiseido called "IIC" or Inverted Interstage
Coupling, gives further "magical" qualities to the shit pentode
driver idea. Apparently, flipping the interturd coupling deformer
phase can further cancel distortion, at least that it isn't
generating on its own, which is also plenty, but lets ignore
that, since the SET retards all do, and pretend that this is
worth doing, and no doubt it does cancel certain harmonics.
Not as well as feedback, of course, but then, for $40,000 USD
you can buy Shiseido's company's 833A amplifier, his dying ultimate
statement of how to combine killer looks with crap sound. It
uses the highly evolved & funky 833A transmitting triode, which
Svetlana still markets and/or makes in Russia.
I thought about using it too, except it ain't easy. It has
no semblance of conventional socketry to mount it, and it likes
stupid-dangerous operating voltages to get the best out of it.
But it looks boss, and probably sounds great. So that means
you have to drive it with an interstage transformer coupled
Chinese KT-88, OK? As reviewed in the never-the-least-bit-critical
Ultimate Audio and not even entirely raved about there, but
of course they tried to love it anyways... Gee, $40k US for
a massive distortion generator. Gotta love it... 4) Don't you
dare use the demon feedback! The amplifier may end up sounding
good, and we can't have that, can we? 5) Make sure to use crap
passive parts, like leaky, low-performance electrolytics that
happen to have "magic" porcelain anodes or fragments swimming
around uselessly in the electrolyte, such as Rubycon Black Gates
or Elna Cerafines. And resistors made from Carbon Composition,
such as Allen-Bradley or Riken. Remember, there is no such thing
as too much noise, too much distortion or too great an inaccuracy.
As one twit on the HK tube audio board sezs: "Measurements mean
nothing. Designing an amp is like making a recipe. If I like
what I hear, then it is good." Sure, and if you don't know what
accuracy sounds like, you don't know what sounds good, and the
vicious circle goes 'round & 'round, accompanied by the dying
sounds of a deranged carnival calliope... So if dependence on
the load is "good", because this makes the distortion cancellation
characteristics of dumb SET design more "interesting", how to
predict just what affect the load impedance or general trend
will have on the sound? Of course, the retards don't know, but
as you say, they think they can dance, too... So they'll recommend
some shit horn piece of dreck, never mind that there are high-efficiency
high-impedance speakers out there that almost sound good, like
your old Warpdales or Tin-noise. I like newer Swirlin' Vegas,
although their load impedances are pretty low. Otherwise, how
does 102db/W/m @ 4-5 ohms grab ya? Even converted back to voltage
parameters (say, output for 2.83VRMS in) you still get at least
99db/W/m! And $1200 pr. CDN, can't have that! Too bloody affordable!
Too small, only 90lbs. ea. and only come up to your belly-button...
God forbid that you have a predictable distortion cancellation
mechanism in your amplifier. How utterly boring! God forbid
that something should sound good by having the minimum of sound
at all. Since everything has a sound anyways, why not make a
technicolor barf & shit collage out of it instead? BTW, maybe
this is the ultimate coincidence. Harvey Rosenberg died of a
heart attack after getting off a plane flight just a few days
ago. Like many other folks, even when I didn't agree with Harv
I still couldn't dislike him. He had one the best takes on having
an alternate POV to any of these other retards. He didn't understand
technology all that well, and never pretended that he did. As
a result, he never got too hung up on philosophies of design.
Philosophies of listening habits & listening purposes & listening
pleasures, but none of this "You have to have this one horn
POS speaker otherwise you'll die" or whatever crap I read from
the usual audio/mystic/fuckups...
Design
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