Posted by akhilesh [ 129.244.120.36 ] on September 07, 2004 at 11:50:31:

In Reply to: Poll - SE / PP posted by Ricercar on September 05, 2004 at 14:10:09:

So far, the amp i listen to almost all the time, is my SET 45 with pretty high end parts. I LOVE the way it distorts (:-)). It sounds good on my 95-96 db home brews, but even better on my klipschorns.

SETs offer a kind of distortion that seems to mate well with the (very limited) abilities of a single driver, or a wide range driver set up. There is a simplicity & elegance here that actually measures terribly using all the conventional measures, yet manages to sound really appealing to many of us (including me).

Maybe SS manufacturers need to design amps that offer the same transfer functions & distortion properties as a full blown SET 45!
I'd definitely listen to them!

PP amps measure a lot better, and likely becuase of this, lose that SET magic. I think Amp engineers need to understand: humans LIKE distortion & weird transfer functions as offered by a SET (well at least some humans do!)

-akhilesh

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