Tenor 75 Wi OTL

Hi Glory

Is the problem the amp or the heat? My guess is the latter. Whatta ya gone ta do? I also live in Florida and can absolutely relate. So far as the seller and what he told you, Cavaet Emptor, you know the rest. The question is are you happy with this amp in your system? you haven't said. I am curious though, for my own personal information, is the Tenor really better than the Atma-sphere in your opinion and how might you describe the differences?

Glory, Love your beaches,Destine and area is just beautiful and one of our favorite vacation areas in the U.S.

Tenor Hmm, I remember the flurry of excitement over these amps a few years ago. The Absolute sound declared them as the very best they have ever heard, well something on those lines, the usual. That along with of course the online buzz over these OTLs. Spread like wild fire though this happens frequently with some of the worst far over priced stuff on the market.
Hope you kepted your Atmosphere amps.

The amps are coming Monday. Sold the AS S30 to a friend down the st so we shall hear if the T is better than the A. The AS has two more space heater tubes than the Tenor so I am hoping that they give off the same amount of heat. The S30 was border line to much heat in the summer.

The plate dissipation of the 6AS7G output tube is 13 watts for a total of 130 watts in the S30. The plate dissipation of the 6C33C is 60 watts for a total of 240 watts in the Tenor. The Tenor will run significantly hotter. It also has a fan which takes the heat away from the amp and spreads it throughout the room. I've been in a fairly large room in the summer with the Tenor and within ten minutes I started sweating. It did sound terrific, however.

I should add that for the Tenor, it's 240 watts of dissipation per monoblock so the actual dissipation in your room is 480 watts.