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Balanced SET? North Audio

Has anyone heard of North Audio in Canada. They build SET amps that run balanced. They are bacically two single ended amps, one handling the positive and the other the negative signal. He says he owns the patent on this. This is why no one else is doing it. Could this be the ultimate.

www.northaudio.com
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herman
2,259 posts
 
You can call an apple an orange but it is still an apple.

That is a push-pull amp no matter what he calls it and it's nothing new.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Sounds like push-pull to me. Or maybe bridged. A gimmick IMHO.
pauly
1,012 posts
 
That means it is a push-pull amplifier.
sdrsdrsdr OP
196 posts
 
Their amps can only be used with a fully balanced pre amp. They take the + and - and amplify individually. They come together at the output transformerwhere and the noise cancelling happens. This is not push-pull. Any tech nuts out there that might have better understanding of this. If anybody is really interested contact www.northaudio.com . I am not any way connected to North Audio. I just got very sold on the idea when I met him on the phone. He was doing some work on my pre that I just bought. I haven't listened to them either. They are located just out of Ottawa. I am in Vancouver. Is there anyone in the Ottawa area that would be interested in checking them out. The owner Steve sounds like a nice guy and has a showroom at his house. He was also telling me about his new proto type 45 balanced monoblocks. He sounds very proud of them and says with the right speakers that nothing can touch them. Let's not rule out something new before someone gives it a chance.
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