"Eiron" wrote in message
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote:

In article ,
jasee wrote:

To rephrase my nonsense above, actually I think Leak produced some
nice
sounding early transistor amplifiers the Stereo 30 and the 70.
They
weren't _that_ will revued but to my mind they sounded good. In
those
days there was a 'transistor sound' and quite a bit of noise as
well.


I was given a Stereo 70 and thought it one of the worst sounding
(quality)
amps I'd ever heard. Just not in the same class as their valve
gear. And
not nearly as good as Quad managed with their first solid state
efforts.

One of these?
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~vic3d/aud...ctStereo70.gif

It seems rather short of current sources, long-tailed pairs and
current
mirrors
but I suppose transistors were more expensive in those days.

--
Eiron.


2N3055 outputs? Agreed they were bad.

However I built myself a power MOSFET power amp and used a Stereo 70
up to the volume control as the preamp. I went from there to a Quad
33, then a Toshiba CY15 and none were any better (were even worse!)
until I got a Cambridge C70 and then a NAD312 which I still have and
use.


--
Woody

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