quality of SET and my horns. I don’t hear my tubes as tubes, rather I hear them as what the Brits call them, valves. These valves breathe as flesh and blood beings. no SS device can match this special ability. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ What SET tube are you running?? Well yes your extentiatial experience of SET’s as *life giving energy to the musical notations** paraphrase mine,,, is just another way of saying what others have taged as **psycha-delic* (greek psyche = soul breath) PP amplification though sweet, is not the same as SET valves. You know SET;’s have had their share of critics over the past decades *the cold ice bucket splash** for the following reason. , some of these criticisms are the result of the evident fact of slim choises in speakers that would pair up successfully with a SET amp. Fostex has come some ways with new designs,
Tang Band also has given some good sound, then AER, Cube, Voxativ all in the past 10 years have made superior Full Midrange Speakesr avaliable. Meanwhile Stereophile and other online stereo reviews have focused primarily, if not exclusively on covering box xover.low senstivity type designs to the complete neglect of higher Sensitive Full Midrange Speaker designs, aka Full Midraange w assist. I for one have no idea how all this shoving SET designs ina corner and worse the clear fact that Full Midrange Speakers have not gotten shoved ina corner,, but **thrown under the bus**.
Full Wide Band Midrange speakers are the most grand **revelation** in my entire audio hobby history.
The WOW factor was off the chart when this discovery was established as *the truth*. I realize Audiogon has always beem always will be about xover.low(er) (makes you happy?) design styles as Front and Center (I get THAT = marketing sells, I wish to say propaganda works,, but this will only call up sour energy from the xover fan-atics and the mods may steop in to cancel my post),, Back in the 1970’s 1980’s the audio retail showrooms were packed full with all sorts of over /inefficient speaker designs. WE were sold in with no thoughts of a **Full MidRange Speaker** The new Full Midrange Speakers now have been around some 10 years, and still not much attention among audiophile discussion. With new SET’s now making their debut with very affordable prices,,, its posssible the new Full Midrange Speakers also may grab some of this new interest as they ride the tail of *The New SET Revolution**. PP amplification sun is lowering in the west, while the SET Star is arising in the east. Side note to all of this Jadis has a new KT170 design tube.. I took a close look at the tube,, Looks like nothing more than a huge KT88. = I’ll pass.
Give me the magic of a SET.
Last note, glad you brought up the issue with the 845 SET, the heat factor. I passed over the 845 for other reasons, went with the 2A3 which my tech wrote back,, **has high distortion at a whopping 5 %, and flea watt power..** I told him, neither spec concens me, I have a speaker design that can deal very effectively with both *flaws**. **are SETs the best amplifiaction??* If we are considering musical magic /midrange, then yes SET’s are the finest musical amplifier.
