Croft Amp

[petrat]

Yes, the Oto SE is quite special at its price point.
Have you heard it with its 'natural' partner speakers, the AN AZ3H?
http://www.decoaudio.com/deco_audio_speakers1.html

[hayche]

Deffo worth picking a JJECC82 up. Glenn installs them as a lower gain alternative and they made a big difference in sound signature for me.

[Ninanina]

Yes, the Oto SE is quite special at its price point.
Have you heard it with its 'natural' partner speakers, the AN AZ3H?
http://www.decoaudio.com/deco_audio_speakers1.html

Hi Peter... No I have not heard the AZ3's with the Oto however I did have a pair of AN speakers but I cannot for the life of me remember if they were the AN-J's or AN-K's but they did not work at all well in my room; they were just 'boomy' and sounded really awful in my room

I loved them in the room I heard them in but could not replicate the sound... It's the pair of speakers that I owned for the shortest time

Have you heard the AZ2/3's with the Oto ?

[Ninanina]

What's so sad with the SET conversion anyway

I think your 'handle' on the Croft is spot on, with definite benefits accruing from moving up the range.
To compete with a good Class A you have to look further up the range, IMO.

Thanks Alan for saying that I got the Croft 'spot on'... I always find it very difficult to try and assess any new piece of hifi but I did try to convey, the best I could, what I experienced with the Croft amp in place

As to being a 'sad' SET convert? well I just thought, from reading on the net, that SET 'people' are supposed to be a rather sad lot... well I don't consider myself as 'sad' but I do think that my AN has a certain 'something' which is actually quite tricky to explain.. I think it has lots of 'feeling' and 'expression' that I have not been able to replicate with any other amp I have tried out so far and as those qualities are obviously important to me I will be staying the the AN for a while yet

The only thing I wish I could do is to drive some 'other' speakers... I have a list of 'other' speakers I'd like to try... but I know I cannot with the Oto.. I will probably learn to live with that though..