The speaker/amplification wars continue

Are you just trying to sell this amp without paying fees,lol.....I had a defy 7 for 3 or 4 years,its ok...nothing i would suggest anyone buying...pain in the ass and kind of dangerous to bias if not really knowledgeable plus extremely expensive to retube.


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WEll it does have tons of reserve power.
And Ricahrd is willing to install some higher quality pots for very easy biasing and far more flexibility, = the ones Jadis installed just a pinch one way or the other. I think for $300 he’ll install all 4.
So that issue can easily be resolved.
Yes 12 tubes X $40-$50.
$500 for 2k hours. I plan to go 2500-3k.
What the defy does possess are the massive blue Philips caps, which are worth their weight in pure Gold. Those caps, 2 on top, 4 underneath are musically magical.
+ I upgrade the 12 caps under chassis to Mundorf SESGO, really super nice in bass/upper bass.
No snakeoil, I heard the upgrade , even blind test i could say which is which.
Most of the resistors have been upgraded to Takman Rey’s, Which made some gains.
All in all this is one very musical amplifier, which i am not sure i want to part with.
Its is Jadis you do realize.
The issue with lack of separation in orchestral instruments may be more to do with the FR speakers.
can’t say for sure til i hear the RG211.
Then I’ll get a good idea what the Defy is all about.Its potential.
+ I’m not so sure these Svet 6550’s are superior to EHKT88’s. RG says its the same tube.
Not sure.
I’m thinking I can get some more out the Defy with the EHKT88’s.
+ These Svet 6550’s are getting up there on hours, 1500-2k, so some of the upper shine is rubbing off.
All these factors have to be considered in this shootout of the Defy6550/used tubes vs the RG211. 
+ Have a  higher quality FR arriving  next week, a  4 inher, Again allowing for more testing and superior judging. 
Could take some time before we get some clear ideas whats going on  here in this shootout of SET vs PP.
RG's 211 has  high quality trans,. vs Jadis' massive trans. 
This could end up with a  
System 1 and System 2. 
Keep Defy + add the RG211.

without paying fees,

~~~Of course pay fees, But I will pay ship,. But not so sure i want to take the loss with all my recent upgrades. If the RG211 does everything right, then I'll have no choice but to sell the Defy. 
If SET system is superior to system PP amp, why hold onto the Defy??

and yes I plan to put the RG211 through a  ~~most grueling test~~This is the only way  we can find out how well SET's perform in complex instrumentation. 

May not get a  fair shake here with the RG SET
AS the 5 incher FR is 91db  and the 4 incher arrives nextw eek is 91db
Richard recommends speakers 94+ db sens. 
So we have low sens = under 90db
Mid level sens = 90-93db
High sens = 94db+++
I have mid level sens. 91,91,91, nothing wiyj high sens,,so testing  will be faulty. 
hummm, lets see, anyone have a  high sens driver they can send out, I'll pay ship both ways. 
Wait,,,Richard mentioned he has some old Magnovox horns in his stash.
maybe there are mid tweets which will give me at least a  better idea of what a SET is capable of.
I disconnected the W18's just now, so i can get a  good idea of what the Defy does with a  single FR mid sens driver,,,  vs the RG211.
For high sens FR you gotta pay the piper, those drivers are expensive. But now i see, higher sens = easier load on amp, = amp more effective/efficient. 
I get that now. 
If the RG211 SET can perform with passing colors ona  mid sens speaker, then I'll know its time to let  my beloved Defy go. 

I just  gota  message on a coment I made on his YT video of the Cayin 845,,says in his note ~~Hey Paul, I  shipped the cayin 845 back, only listened to vocals with it,,, I am now listening to a  KT150 with complex music~~~ What does this tell you??
The RG 211 will be tested as by fire. 
I know what the Defy can do, can a SET  beat it? 
We will know soon enough.