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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Single-stage Melquiades vs. DHT amps

Post Subject: Eaten alive.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/23/2009

Romy the Cat wrote:
BTW, I have a local Bostonian guy have replied brought today a very interesting DHT amp. He has a number of DHTs and this one he reports is the special one, quite expensive as well. Although the electricity was not good today but we did some listening and the results were very quite interesting. I am still contemplating about them and will post what I think what I have more organized thoughts.

Today a another local guy responded my old request for local DHT people to bring their amps in my home. He brought his two-stager with 300B. I would not identify his amp but would say that it was $4K monoblock with a reportedly expensive Kron 300B by Czech “KR Audio”. I have no idea what was in the head of people who were responsible for this amps sound but it was not a lot. It was dry frequency pushing with very dominant upper MF and I was impressed with… but then I realized that the amp was working full-range. I was irrational to try Milq against it and I set up my 2A3 Sun Audio converted to 6E5P driver with cathode bias. The Sun Audio, that I did not particularly value high very clearly demonstrate how much that 300B was unbalanced. I have to tell that I felt that it was unnecessary but juts for sake of ego decided to try against this 300B my full-range Milq (the Injection Channel). The Milq throw sound in comparing to the sound we heard before that my visitor was laughing – it was completely different type of sound well beyond any condensation of loading and matching… I did not even build a filter to try the 300B against my new YO186 amp and it was clearly that the 300B amp was the amp of a sub-competitive level.

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