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In the Forum: Melquiades Amplifier
In the Thread: Melq 6e5p driver stage for ss?

Post Subject: Why change anything?Posted by rowuk on: 12/28/2014

The question is: why mess around with untried concepts before you try something that already has a track record. If the sound were not good would it be the driver, your output stage, the match of amp to speaker - or something else that you don't understand?
My idea is that if you even have to ask the question, you aren't ready for any answer. Romy has done an admirable job of describing what he has done and why as well as making it VERY clear that there is a process behind his system choices. An itchy trigger finger for a soldering iron was never part of his process. There is ALWAYS a reference to context when he does something.
If I were to build a SS Melquiades, the first iteration would have a simple "no gain" or very "low gain" MOSFET output stage just to lower impedance. I just don't know why I would want to.

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