does more power=better quality ?

[email protected]: My friend, what to do with you.

Cdc: Fair question. I meant to write "match", not "trim". Sorry.

Uru975...Eliminate the transformer, and what do you get? About a dozen output tubes!

entirely dependent on a good match with a loudspeaker. tubes vs transisters is as much an astetic choice as a sonic one. just try to stay within the recomended power for your speakers.

morbius:

A last point ... the experience at Singer was anything but worthless, and I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you are being handicapped by misplaced reliance on the scientific method in thinking that only a direct A/B comparison between amps on exactly the same system in exactly the same room is valid. Those amps were not designed to be used in the same room and with the same equipment, much as your example of Maggie power requirements illustrates. Further, each amp will favor different types/brands of cabling, making their use with the same cabling an error. One is a Class-A biased triode design feeding speakers through an output transformer, the Krell monos being solid-state designs that are probably Class A up to a point and AB thereafter. Fortunately, Andy Singer is not a physicist, but a hi-fi man, and in recognition of these differences, the amps were set up in different rooms in different systems, to live or die on their own merits. In short, the only worthless comparison would be a direct A/B in the same system -- it would tell us nothing.

PS - Why do I picture you wearing one white sock and one brown sock? Your thoughts about about automobiles, televisions, ice cream, proper comparisons, 300B's, and absolutism were unsolicited and are worthless to me (and I don't need upper-case font like you do to make my points -- how presumptuous to think that I would allow you to address me that way -- how obnoxious you are).

Raquel,

In addition to all the differences between the two systems
that you note - the rooms had different room modes - they
accentuated / deaccentuated different frequencies. That's
probably the biggest factor making the comparison of the two
systems invalid.

When comparing audio equipment - at least stick to the same
or similar rooms. You'd be surprised how much the room
alters the sound.

As far as you thinking of me with mis-matched socks, that's
just your own prejudice showing in thinking of me in a
stereotypical fashion; a stereotype that has little backing
in truth. I'm not a stereotypical scientist; I don't know
any who are.

However, I am enough of a scientist to know that all the
fine points of audio have physical explanations. There's
no "magic" at work in tne audio field.

Dr. Gregory Greenman
Physicist