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Hi everyone, last 18 years I've got hooked up to vintage Tube amplifiers, prior to that I was rather happy with SS muscle amps driven to my Apogee Scintilla and Duetta sig's truly open 3D soundstage Few tube amps was able accept Apogee marriage but not  as good as SS amps, until I ended up bargain priced infamous Altec's voice the theatre speakers not a wife pleaser but luckly I've  got a dedicated music room, never looked back since then ,,WE design 91 , WE46C , RIP Don Garber, even loftin White design SET amps T.Mayer Attilio Caccamo of Tektron some genious Japanese design SET Amps they all have unique presantation complimented by incredable sound of 45, 2A3, VT52,300B, E406N, even modern production Sophia 206 , and many more  ! my question is why these old school design audio sounds nearer to reality ? naturally we are all aware of room acoustics tuning our  rooms etc, etc are we listening equipment or music ? do we really need furniture grade Audio equipment ? or maybe we humans are we trying to re invent the wheel again ?
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atmasphere
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Maybe Ralph may want to comment on how the 3C24 would match with your Altecs.

I think it might work rather well but the design of the output transformer would be paramount, as this tube likes to run at some pretty high voltages! This requires a higher turns ratio on the transformer as well as some other considerations for high voltage operation. How much power does it make- about 20 watts or so?
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sabih OP
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My thread about SET amps, and horn speakers not OTL nor PP or other magnificent tube/ valve designs I Was expected to hear from SET Amps owners and their experience with horn designs not daring to argue about which is best  or worst, some listeners tries to invite musicans into their listening rooms some claims singers singing at to them even some says just like being there, what ever floats our boats as long as we are happy and enjoy listening music.as far I know everything copy of copy nothing is original even in terms of Audio engineering J.Futterman came up Design of with OTL amps rather talented E.engineers improve or re create their own design ''hats off ''to all talented unique engineers after or simple design like SET Amps goes back 1900 still makes marvelous music, no wonder P.Walker once said keep it short and simple K.I.S.S.
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sabih OP
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I've massive respect designers like Paul Birkeland truly remarkable value for money products still enjoy listening stereomour mk1 very happy marriage with Maxonic TW1100.
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Ralph, I don't have product literature for the amp, but Paul mentioned 11 Wpc, but it plays like it's more. Great match with what my speakers like in amplification.

I've never enjoyed music so much at home in the last forty years or so. I've finally reached, and attained what I wanted, and searched for for all these years. I'm now in my seventies, so I feel fortunate to have finally reached my goal, and I get to listen for many hours every day, though it means staying up quite late most nights. At times, I wake up as the sun is rising, and turn everything off and go to bed. What a life, but my wife can't tolerate music the way I like to listen to it, so that's how it has to be. I love it anyway.

Regards,
Dan
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islandmandan
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Sabih, Paul is about a two hour drive from me. When I told him I was in the market for an amp, one Saturday he brought four different amps for me to listen to. Last one was the 3C24, which had the best parts selection, and the best sound. Interesting amp, the output tubes are much smaller than a 300B or 845.

Paul has been a very positive influence on my quality of musical life, he is honest, generous, and really seems to know what he is doing. I'm glad Dan of Bottlehead, recommended I call Paul when I needed work on one of my amps. It's something I'm grateful for.

Dan
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