SET Shootout China VS The USA

@mozartfan Man, you're all over the place, too many bold pronouncements about this or that being best. I love SET, and have two actual SET amps and one pp. Own or have owned two 845, one 300B, one 2a3 for SET. For pp, EL34, 6550, KT88, KT120, 6CA7. To say any of these tubes or amp topology is best simply untrue. I've enjoyed both pp and SET and all these tubes at one time or another.

I'm Verstappen  and Red Bull fan, not into Hamilton or MB, but I'd have to say Hamilton and MB got ripped. Hamilton increasing his lead with worn out hard compound tires, he was cream of crop that day. What officials did was NASCAR shenanigans, fake competition.

If this is Yaqin MS-2A3, makes no claim of being SET. states its PP, I see claims of 10-14wpc.

Whatever Yaqin model it is, likely combo of decent parts and others needing upgrading. That's been my experience with chifi relatively lower price equipment. Hopefully, they have decent design, in looking at Chinese 845 amps a few years ago, some were grenades just waiting to explode.

sns,

I can understand race control wanting the race and the season championship to be decided by actual racing, hence the bending of the rules and conventional practice.  What they should have done, to be fair to all the drivers, and to conclude the race with a lot of green flag racing to the end, is red flag the race and let everyone pit and get fresh tires.  Hamilton would have been in the lead, as he should be, and Verstappen, if he stayed close enough, would have DRS after two laps would have been able to attempt a pass.  I think Masi botched the call by not doing this.

 What they should have done, to be fair to all the drivers, and to conclude the race with a lot of green flag racing to the end, is red flag the race and let everyone pit and get fresh tires.  Hamilton would have been in the lead, as he should be, and Verstappen, if he stayed close enough, would have DRS after two laps would have been able to attempt a pass.  I think Masi botched the call by not doing this.

What he said...

Toto was wrong for asking Masi not to send out a safety car when Latifi crashed but Christian was screaming at Masi to let the lapped cars pass the safety car. The very same cars that Lewis had to pass to get that 12 second lead. Past races always finished in the order they were in prior to a crash with the lead driver put at a disadvantage from allowing all the trailing cars to close any gaps.

If the race ended on a safety car, so be it. Done all the time, until now. Look at Max winning that race in the pouring rain with only 2 laps completed and getting points for it. That was a joke.

Masi changed his decision after being screamed at by Red Bull to let the lapped cars pass out of the way letting Max drag race Lewis on much fresher tires without the 12 second lead Lewis had before the crash. 

Max's teammate, Perez, apologized to Hamilton. Russell said it was unacceptable. Riccardo said it was a f*cked up thing to do. Other drivers said it was done for TV to make it more exciting and likening it to NASCAR (which is the ultimate insult).

From now on, no one can talk directly to the Race Control but to an intermediary instead, who will relay the gist of the complaint to Masi, who's been doing some odd things all season. Not the way to run a race.

All the best,
Nonoise