SET Amp question

The Cary 805 AEs are honestly hard to fault in comparison to even the best SET amps (which to me are 45s). I never did any sort of A/Bing because you wouldn't use the two on the same speakers - but the AEs are no slouches in any department.

To get a hi-power SET (anything stronger than a 300B) to sound really good takes a great deal of money in the power supply and output trannies. There are no good, cheap 211 or 845 SETs. Not really good anyway. The bargain gear does still give some SET sound but will be slow and rolled-off due to the inevitable bandwidth restrictions.

Pardon from the semi thread jack.
Is there anything that will minimize the speaker SET interaction. e.g. bigger, shorter speaker wire: adding additional stuffing inside the cabinets: changing bias voltage. Any suggestions?

lewhite,

it is possible to add circuitry between amp and speaker to present a more tube friendly load. merlin rc network option is such a solution. i have read where some more tech savy listeners have done similar themselves. agoner gallant diva has done something along this line to better run apogees of high power tube amps. so it is possible but not commonplace. not sure there is anything that can practically be done to make low efficiency speakers play louder off a flea powered set.

Do you think extra big powercables might tip the response for more at 100-200hz

Better power cables might deliver current more effetively to the amp if that were an issue but I would not expect a power cable change alone to deliver the desired results.