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Here is another GaN amp to add to the list...
You can read more about it in these publication reviews http://agdproduction.com/news.html
Yeah?? I don’t know about that one, jury’s still out, till we hear more about it.
Looks to me like a bit of a furphy to gain an edge with the tube brigade, and cashing in on new technology. Might still sound great.
I ask, why put solid state components inside an old 6550 vacuum tube envelope, bet it’s not vacuum’ed back out and sealed again either.
Still it may sound good, just the whole gutted tube thing, stuffed with solid state, and still using all the tube pins as power/current transmitting contacts????
PS: OK he’s shown all his cards, in this statement
" Company founder Alberto Guerra admitted that he did it largely for the sake of visual aesthetics. “Otherwise a class-D amp just looks like a box,” he said. The amp uses gallium nitride MOSFET output transistors, which Guerra says switch faster and allow the amp to have a noise floor in the -120 to -130dB range. Power is rated at 200W into 4 ohms."
Good on him, I think it was a bad move to do it. (must have been an Italian brain snap to do the tube thing, they do make some of the best and worst cars also)
Cheers George