A tale of two amplifiers

[Radford Revival]

As the owner of a pair of Mullard 5-20s with ‘middling’ transformers I’d love to try one of your amps... unfortunately I would then have to give it back.... so I’ll stick with mine for now. They do work very well though

Just to correct myself, when I said "It does indeed, it's (conceptually) easy to build an amplifier that delivers gobs of power, but to do the same thing, especially with valves, is another task."

I actually meant to say "It does indeed, it's (conceptually) easy to build an amplifier that delivers gobs of power, but to do the same thing with a decent bandwidth, low distortion and good damping factor, especially with valves, is another task."

[Firebottle]

Indeed, and the conflicting requirements between the low end and high end frequency response design constraints! You have to juggle efficiency, low frequency response, high frequency response, as well as other esoteric parameters that are not immediately obvious

That's why you engender Will.

[farflungstar]

Update. I've just spent an incredibly enjoyable 5 hours of music. Beautiful sonics, pinpoint imaging - from the Carys! The Hiraga needs a bit of attention so I hooked up the Carys but changed the 6sl7 driver from the NOS tung sols I'd been using back to the original Phillips's jobs. Oh my - vocals to die for, a wide and deep soundstage blah blah. Okay this was on mainly female vocals/jazz but it was beautiful. Bass was full and articulate.

This might have something to do with the new Reed arm which is amazing in the mid and top end and very controlled in the bottom end. Maybe the sightly full bottom end of the Cary's balances this out.

Tomorrow I'll try something more demanding.... But it's got me thinking....