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In the Thread: How to get a LOT of SET power.

Post Subject: Cost and justification of existencePosted by el`Ol on: 5/25/2009

Hello Romy,

for large SETs price seems to go up exponentially with the power handling (I am sure you know better than me why), so these amps are under strong pressure of having to justify their existence, other than small SETs or pentode push-pull amps. There are few companies that explore this territory and few tube types that are available in numbers, and of course not all of them can be heard by someone who just visits a single show once a year, but when I listen to a pentode push-pull-amp that is so close to the small SETs I have heard the existence of the big SETs becomes quesionable for me.
I have also listened to the Wavac 833 amp combined with Kharma speakers some years ago and found it adds some shining or radiance to the sound I haven´t heard from other amps. For some People who listen to that slow and relaxing audiophile music and rather bath in sound than follow a musical performance this may be a very musical feature. Well, maybe this justifies the existence of something that horribly expensive, I needn´t understand everything.

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