Tekton Double Impacts

Dynaco ST 70, the largest selling tube amp of all time.  Still being used and modded by thousands if not 10s of thousands.   A purity of tone all its own. 

 Cleeds, David_ten,

I live in the suburban Chicago area.

Oh no, I did not mean that we folk are everywhere. I myself only have one friend who is a believer in what we do. He has a WAF that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. But that's a different story.

I was referencing how this hobby has endless possibilities with every move we make in pursuit of excellent sound reproduction.

Sorry if I was confusing.

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Many thanks to Charles, and jetter:

Jetter, when I had the ST 70 I was pleased at the beginning, but soon the tubes degenerated, the caps (or whaever) began to crackle and I had i rebuilt.  Unfortunately, that only revealed a cerain dullness at the top and a mush at the bottom. My dog once burned himself on the tubes and I never could keep he doggon thing biased.  I knew how popular it is and how many folks have modded it for love or money, At that point, however,  I decided that the amp was a means and not an end.  So I tried a Bryston B-60 and lived with it's flat harshness for a couple o years.  Finally I read Nelson Pass's articles about "the first watt  and that's my story to date. 
The closest I've gotten to anything electronic was changing the caps on an old pair of Spica TC-50's which I gave to Eric Alexander to excite his curiousity. (BTW the ST-70's had a bad habit of burning tweeters on my Paragon Jubilees which are still languishing at Aris Audio here in Salt Lake City.

 Only a bottom feeder's personal journey.  It might be interesting to hear how others have reached the rarified air of electronics worthy of Tekton Design.  

Charles, thanks for your confirmation of Kenny's recommendations. Do you (or anyone) have first hand experience with  the Lyngdorf 2170?
It seems that  this Danish firm also sells a stand alone amp without the equalization doo-dads, or am I off base.

I envy you folkis who are able to trade gear, but coveting is one of the Big Ten

The LTA Zotl 40 is my opinion like a blank canvas in sound and most definitely can be voiced in several ways but Offcourse can only be taken so far and some folks may still a preference in a warmer,meatier midrange.

I use 1966 Mullard xf2's el34 with either rca 5751's or brimar 6060 in the 12ax7 input differential pair.I have found no difference in sound by changing the phase splitter 12au7's.

This combo gives me plenty of meat on the bones in the mids equal to like eating baby back ribs instead of the big fat spare ribs that I don't like as well.😋

I tried the gold lion kt77's but I didn't care for them at all and I have a new quad of the Sophia electric el-34's but I haven't tried them yet.

I mainly listen to my little consonance 2a3 set and I'm patiently waiting for my Aric audio custom 2a3 to be built.

The Zotl 40 just like my FW sit is going nowhere they are both that good and I consider them to be keepers.


Kenny.