"Trevor Wilson" wrote in message
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"Andre Jute" wrote in message
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Small is also beautiful. The small is the genesis of the large.

It's funny that some cannot grasp this fundamental concept with
single
ended triode (SET) amps. We routinely build preamps and voltage
multiplication stages of triodes operating single-ended, and the
diehards who with a convulsive kneejerk reject any amp without a
push-
pull power stage will be the last to let go of the single-ended gain
stage, yet they cannot see that the small signal stage is a template
for the sweetest power stage.

What is sauce of quail must be sauce for the goose and the gander
too.

Very difficult to understand how some people think.

**Speak for yourself. The best valve preamps I've ever heard are push pull
(Alan Wright's fabulous balanced preamps spring to mind).

And those pre-war WE cinema amplifiers that were referred to in another
thread had one or two stages of push-pull amplification before the output
stage. But then they were money-no-object designs, designed to produce the
best performance possible with the technology of their time.


David.