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As I recall, it was originally designed as an article for Practically
Witless ( or was that Practical Wireless ? ) magazine. It *was*
designed by a bunch of Texas engineers at Bedford, but I'm not so
sure about the " in the bar " bit. Several of us built them from
Henry's Radio kits, and I think that for it's day, it represented
pretty much state of the art for what any of us could afford. I seem
to remember that its specifications were beyond anything that we had
ever heard. A friend of mine that built one, did that power upgrade
to his, and used it to drive his quad electrostatics, and I'm sure I
recall it sounding superb. I built a 'standard' version, and used it
to drive my EMI 13 x 8's, with 6 x 4 mids ( remember those - they
came as a pair ) rounded off with an Eagle duralumin dome tweeter,
and Eagle 3 way crossover. At the time, I thought it was the dogs ...

Yes, I built my own. Drove to Bedford and bought a kit from the original
manufacturers. Freq response, THD and stuff were leading edge at the time
and it sounded great to me through my Wharfedales (which have only just
expired). My Texan still works and the only problems were worn out volume
controls which I changed around 1995. Design was quite innovative with high
slew-rate op-amps at the front end.

Jo