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Weren't they designed by Charles Hansen of Ayre?

>> Weren't they designed by Charles Hansen of Ayre?
NO! to the best of my knowledge, they were designed by Dan(Dave?) Reich who used to work at Classe for years & years. When at Classe, all of his amps & preamps had model numbers that began with "DR". I heard that there was a falling out between the powers at Classe & Dan/Dave Reich & he joined Theta. This 4-5 years ago.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks!

Hansen designed someboday's amps besides his own, didn't he? Maybe he did the Dreadnaughts.

Drubin,
I believe that ALL of Theta's amps were designed by Dan/Dave Reich incl the Dreadnaughts.
Charlie Hansen could have designed somebody else's amps (I knew that he designed many of the Avalon speakers but I didn't know that he free-lanced amp designs...) but they were not Theta's.

Maybe they both worked on it. In this review of the Citadel monoblocks in the July 2006 Ultimate AV, Shane Beuttner writes: "The main circuit design for the Dreadnuaght, and therefore the Citadel, was by Ayre's Charles Hansen."