OTL amps, my pick for the tube used.

If you look at their website, they claim 100 watts into 8 ohms and 150 into 4. So I am assuming that ’100 amps’ is a typo, not uncommon on the web

Hi Ralph,

What amplifier are you referring to? What I was pointing out is that George’s statement about 100 amps referred to the solid state ME 1400 and ME 1500, which are not the amp referred to in the OP. And the ME 1400 and ME 1500 are specified as being far more powerful than 100 and 150 watts into 8 and 4 ohms, respectively. And what I was pointing out was that (a) the power ratings of the ME 1400 and ME 1500 into 2 and 1 ohm loads are not consistent with what appears to be the rating of their mains fuses; and (b) the 100 amp maximum continuous "output current" specification of the ME 1400 and ME 1500, even if accurate, would only apply in the case of absurdly low load impedances and is therefore not relevant to any real world usage of those amps. As I’m sure you agree.

Also, I couldn’t find any detailed specifications for output power or anything else for the OTL-150 at the Navison site (just some references to "coming soon"), although that has no relevance to my posts in this thread.

Best regards,
-- Al

Also, I couldn’t find any detailed specifications for output power or anything else for the OTL-150 at the Navison site (just some references to "coming soon"), although that has no relevance to my posts in this thread.

Same here, I have no idea what he's looking at, or the relevance to the ME1500 doing 100amps either????

Cheers George

I don't know about you folks out there but I'm getting dizzy. What does any of this have to do with how an amp sounds. It might have to do with how loud an amp will go but that is about it.

Looking at those spacings the word ‘Chernobyl’ keeps meandering into my subconscious.

Caveat emptor

I have a pair of Audio Mirror monoblocks that use the 6C33C tube and have more than 50 hours and no problems at all. I like the sound of these tubes - very clear, uncolored, balanced and almost no real sonic signature. Tubes with other amps I had always seemed to accentuate some part of the music - EL34s seemed slightly loose in the bass, but great for voices, KT120s were zippy on top, etc. etc. The 6C33Cs are auto-biased according to the Audio Mirror website. Maybe that is why I have had no tube issues yet. But I do have a backup quad! LOL.