"Rob" wrote in message

Don Pearce wrote:
On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 19:13:04 +0200, "Iain M Churches"
wrote:


"Stewart Pinkerton" wrote in message
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On Sun, 9 Jan 2005 18:04:10 -0000, "Richard Wall"
wrote:


No - it is merely revealing your faulty assumptions. The test is
working perfectly. However you should be able to discern the
appalling sound of a SET in any kind of test - blind or not.

Here you show both your ignorance and your bias !! A opinion
back by no facts at all just an opinion of poorly designed SET
systems you have heard before.

The problem is that there's no such thing as a *well* designed SET
amp - by definition! :-)

That's why push-pull operation was invented in the '20s, and only
audiofools want to go back to before those days...............

Interesting that most of the well informed members of RAT tended to
disagree with you vehently on this point.

Which point?

Do they disagree with the idea that P-P was invented in the 1920s?

Do they disagree with the idea that P-P can completely cancel even order
nonlinear distortion?

They if anyone have experience with SET.

No surprise that people who like the sound of audible nonlinear distortion
would object to P-P.

Have you actually taken the trouble to listen
to a good SET (for example Andre's Kiss amplifier) playing
Shostokovich ¨ String Quartets or a small chamber ensemble?

Letsee, I'm supposed to get turned on by good clasical music being played
through an EFX box?

How about playing classical music through one of those amplifiers with
attached speakers that says "Fender" on it?

Added reverb, anyone? ;-)

Quite
remarkable:-) Your Krell, and most other amplifiers, I am told,
fade in comparison.

Sad how it is that they are sonically accurate amplifiers.

Not recommended though for fans of Metalica:-)

A SET amplifier is an effects box - nothing more or less.

Agreed.

If you
happen to enjoy the effect it produces, then that is fine. But please
don't imagine that it has anything to do with high fidelity
reproduction of music.

Agreed.

Pearce Consulting
http://www.pearce.uk.com

Disagree - heard music through one recently, stunning.

Only proves Don's point.