does more power=better quality ?

I'm glad someone let me in on the Anarchy thing. I was lost on that for a minute.Actually I'm still not clear on it.:-)

Going from a listening stand point. I've always prefered the simpler designed amplifiers. The sound was always more open and transparent too me. I equate this with less is better in the signal path. Easily heard not necessarily on a expensive system but on a simple system with fewer bottle necks. Will 6 wpc do it for everyone ..no it won't.

But it works wonders for me. Hearing the difference in cables,sources and other components has never been easier to do.

Oh and yes there are amplifiers with single output transistors. Mine has no output transistors as far as I know. Atleast not the traditional ones like mosfets or bipolars.

"More transistor rush / more tube rush"

What on earth are you talking about?

No, multiple devices don't need to be trimmed, although it helps to make sure that one device doesn't hog all the current. That is what all those nasty resistors are there for: to minimise those effects for guys to lazy to spend a few pennies to match them.

BTW.......there is an optimum value for the voltage drop across those resistors, but that is way off topic.

...of countinous power with minimal distortions throughout an audiable freequency bandwidth preferably including subharmonic and ultrasonic areas as well.

People who have Magneplanar speakers, and people who have Lowther speakers know the answer to this question. YES, and NO, and both are correct.

Raquel,

Yes - I read your Singer anecdote - and noted the qualification.

However, the conditions of the comparison made that
comparison absolutely WORTHLESS.

So worthless - that it shouldn't even be brought up -
qualifications notwithstanding.

I reject your contention that there is one "way to go"
in audio system design - efficient speakers and relatively
low power amps.

Some well executed speaker designs, for example ribbons;
are inherently low efficiency and require high currents.
You can only make a permanent magnet so strong. A ribbon
driver has inherently a single turn in its "voice coil" -
so unlike dynamic drivers where the efficiency can be
increased by putting more turns in the voice coil - a
ribbon can't take advantage of that technique. With a
limited strength magnet, and a single turn - the only way
to get more output is the third term in the equation for
the Lorentz force - the current. The impedance must be
lowered to obtain more current. However, that means a
more powerful amp.

That approach is every bit as well considered as your
approach.

As far as the 300B being linear - ARE YOU KIDDING!!

Have you ever put a 300B on a test bench to determine
the linearity? I have - and I would NOT say that they
are champs in the linearity department.

One can make an amp that sounds very nice to those that
like the sound of the 300B, but please don't say it is
anything special when it comes to linearity.

Dr. Gregory Greenman
Physicist