Why no threads on OTL amps?

Jtinn, my recommendation to you as a dealer would be to audition the Berning line in your system. I believe that if you do this, you will pick up that line as your new reference standard. I am sure the Tenors are exquisite amplifiers that anyone would be proud to own,with great sound and beautiful build quality. I do not intend to knock them and perhaps went overboard with my "flat as a pancake" statement. However, as Tubegroover stated, Berning has established a new path for OTL that creates a new standard in the OTL field. The typical circlotron OTL circuit topology has been superceded. The inherent circlotron weaknesses have been replaced with a superior design. And, of course, the previous cathode follower and Futterman designs had been surpassed years before by Ralph Karsten and his Atma-sphere circlotron design. I love OTLs and all of the great amps out there that use OTL design. I just have to recognize that there is now a superior design that will take us further toward OTL perfection, and that design is the Berning Zero-Hysteresis OTL amplifier. Cheers.

Thorty 40, I couldn't pull up your URL with my search engine. Would love to see that design. If you could find another way for us to see it, it would be much appreciated.

Twl, well put, your comments hit the nail right on the head. Why do so many seem resistant to the thought of a more evolved OTL design? That is my question.

Try this -

www.condor-connection.org/slog/

Then goto SLOG on line, view archives, on line archive 1, scroll to roughly the middle of the posts and find "here's the correct image" by Brian Walsh 10/24/01 and click on the thread.

That will take you to the picture.

Chris

Thanks, Thorty40, very cool pix.

A little surprised not to have noticed Atma-Spheres on this thread. Compared to the other amps I have owned, tube or solid-state, the MA-2's have outperformed all in nearly every category. Bottom slam, midrange transparency, and extension up top...all beautiful and musical. This, of course, is with the system I have assembled. Avalon Eidelon, Jadis preamp, CEC/ Audio Note digital, Clearaudio TT, FIM cable. I have enjoyed many systems, but none for as long or as consistently as that which I have forementioned.

Reliability has so far been a non-issue. The 220 watts/ channel offers more than enough juice. The heat generated is something else. My room must increase a good 8-10 degrees. Great in winter, but summer....

I have not compared to other OTL's but reports on performance carries similar subjective remarks. A cleansing in clarity, bringing the listening experience closer to the recording venue. Must be heard in a well designed system.