@donvito
Quite an impressive marketing spiel you got there Don ...
If you understand circuit design and you know what biasing does, you’ll recognize it as marketing hype. The circuit is (most likely) optimized for the smallest common denominator, in this case an EL34 operating in pentode / ultra-linear. The auto biasing will not bump up the plate voltage - and we know for a fact it doesn’t as the output is the same for EL34 and KT88 on the PL. An optimized KT88 has a much higher output that an EL34.
(Tip, look at the tube specifications)
Since they don’t even mention NFB, they probably don’t reduce that for triode operation either.
Not optimized by any measure.
If you understand circuit design, you’d know this. If you don’t, then we are wasting each other’s time.
Telling me a PL is "special" as the auto biasing is not in the signal path is like saying a Toyota is special for having a steering wheel. I don't even know if you can get an amp with a biasing circuit in the signal path.
And hyping auto biasing as being "passive"? If auto biasing wasn’t passive, it wouldn’t be "auto" biasing now would it?
Folks in marketing tend to exaggerate ... a lot.
Quite an impressive marketing spiel you got there Don ...
If you understand circuit design and you know what biasing does, you’ll recognize it as marketing hype. The circuit is (most likely) optimized for the smallest common denominator, in this case an EL34 operating in pentode / ultra-linear. The auto biasing will not bump up the plate voltage - and we know for a fact it doesn’t as the output is the same for EL34 and KT88 on the PL. An optimized KT88 has a much higher output that an EL34.
(Tip, look at the tube specifications)
Since they don’t even mention NFB, they probably don’t reduce that for triode operation either.
Not optimized by any measure.
If you understand circuit design, you’d know this. If you don’t, then we are wasting each other’s time.
" Adaptive AutoBias is completely passive and NOT in the signal path"
Telling me a PL is "special" as the auto biasing is not in the signal path is like saying a Toyota is special for having a steering wheel. I don't even know if you can get an amp with a biasing circuit in the signal path.
And hyping auto biasing as being "passive"? If auto biasing wasn’t passive, it wouldn’t be "auto" biasing now would it?
Folks in marketing tend to exaggerate ... a lot.