What Class A is better? SUGDEN FPA-4 or PASS LABS XA-25


I`d like experiences of the gurus.

Thanks
sacresta
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Wow, I hope the OP has made up his mind by now as this thread was started 3 1/2 years ago ...

@mattmiller 

 

Oh I don't know, just the inventor of the first Class A circuit design. If it weren't for Sugden, it's more like WHO IS PASS? 

 

Some of the folks in this thread or clearly dropping in to be post what they are fan-boys of which is fine assuming you know what the hell you are talking about. Not having heard Sugden, or looking at pictures to make judgements on how something sounds @georgehifi is ridiculous. 

Oh I don't know, just the inventor of the first Class A circuit design. If it weren't for Sugden, it's more like WHO IS PASS? 

Class A operation goes back to the 1920s.