Posted by SteveBrown [ 4.224.210.15 ] on April 30, 2007 at 05:43:14:

In Reply to: Re: Trends TA-10.1 Amps at LSAF posted by FredT on April 29, 2007 at 20:01:38:

I agree that it has a lot going for it and it's a great amp. In my system I'm comparing it to a number of SE tube designs and in that league, I'm preferring the tube stuff. The current champ is a 45 parafeed amp that uses nickle in the output transformers and a number of other fun tricks, like direct coupling between stages. FWIW, not only do I have the Trends, but I recently bought a Charlize amp and I have a "Gain Clone" amp. I'd like to do a shoot out at some point and compare them all. I've not heard the Charlize yet, but of the other two, the Trends easily tops the Gain Clone.

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