Nick Gorham wrote:
Keith G wrote:
"Nick Gorham" wrote in message
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Keith G wrote:


I understand (his wife told me) that T De P brought out both ss and
valve versions of an amp that were *sonically indistinguishable*
from each other to cater for 'lady musicians' (was the phrase) who
were alarmed by the heat and palaver of valve stuff! Both hideously
expensive, I gather, which is the whole point of valves - you get
the better sound for actually a lot less money at the budget end of
the spectrum!


Ok, but every time I read anything that TDP has written or said I get
the feeling that its all hype/********/misdirection (your choice).




I have only had personal experience of a couple of minor EAR products
- the 834P and L, both of which were not ridiculously overpriced at
the time when compared to other makes. As you know, the phono isn't
marvellous but it's a reasonable introduction to valve phono stages at
the price level and the line stage worked well enough (and was solidly
built) but didn't do the sound any favours at all - M could always
tell when it was in the loop and said it sounded 'blurry', I always
thought it sounded 'grey' but wondered if that might not be the
Mullards I had in it...???

I worded my post to include what he said/wrote and not the performance
of his products, as I have only heard a few of them, but all the things
I have read from him match how I described them.

Nothing more.


I've got an 834P phono, paid about 200UKP S/H, and I like it a lot. Only
criticisms are a slight bass 'lift' and a daft difficult-to-see on/off
arrangement - I left it on for a week once ;-). Oh, and needless to say,
it has a noisy left channel until nudged about a bit. Couple of
amusing/informative links:

http://db.audioasylum.com/cgi/t.mpl?f=vinyl&m=108318

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/Forums/...postID=365#365

825UKP new is silly though.

Rob