Originally Posted by
Barry
The Electrocompaniet "The Two Channel Amplifier" was exceptional. A commercial realisation of the Loestrom and Otala design published in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, it was heavily biased towards Class A, ran hot, was not known for its reliability - and was a dream amp with which to drive Quad 57 ESLs.
That's lostroh..... Sorry to be pedantic. IIRC it was pure class A, certainly to 25W. Also IIRC it had an input impedance of only something like 1K!! Definitely no good with a passive
Edit: This is very IIRC... but the Pioneer M90 I believe used very similar circuitry... just not in class A.
Last edited by Arkless Electronics; 17-08-2017 at 19:12.
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