opinions on Clayton amps ?

"The S40 is now a 50 watt class A amp"

So what is the differenced between this class A amp and Cairn, Sugden, Musical Fidelity, Monarchy, etc?

Is the bigger difference between class A amps as a group and other amps or between individual class A amps?

Just curious as I've never heard pure class A.

Clayton Audio class A amps are using Motorola Bi-Polar (not MOS-FETS) matched pairs that are at 100 amps each...8 pairs is HIGH CURRENT only restrained by the fuse! They have special cooling heat sink fins that are simiiar to military antenna heat sinks.... heat generated via the fins only reach a max of only 124 degree F and by their design, will last 50 years or more!

You can keep your hand or rear end on the fins and never get burned! Nicely warm, though.

The design is truly class A.

The balanced design is truly balanced symmetry...mirrored parts/pairs...and it is correctly done. No glizzy metal foo-foo. Our chassis is fairly plain, and have designed in protection circuits for the end-user and have their special rear "bumpers" to protect cables and furnishings.

They use pair of gaint... HUGE caps, not multiple small caps. 200,000 uF of capacitance. Huge torodial tranny.
Clayton is truly neutral to the music. they do not impart any "flavor" of their own and they are tonally correct across the entire audio spectrum.

They will power any speaker and will never let go of control.

Enjoy!

you can check out a review of the m-200's in positive feedback. It is an awesome review

Optarchie,
Is this the review to which you were referring:

http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue33/clayton_m200.htm

yes, that is the review