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Anonymous Gilles wrote:

I am not fgrustrated but trying to gather information before making a decision. I sen you an email from france and I own electrovoice patricians in a large room, about 100 square metres my question is is your amp real better than say the lamms or tenors and other much praised amps in the audio community

I did not think that me semantic Romynism “frustration” you would take too seriously, although to manage sound in 100 square meters room should create quite a few frustrations in audio life.

EV Patricians are quite fine loudspeakers, they are boundary loaded with all following consequences and around 105 dB sensitive, I do not know how “live” your room but still I would have difficult time to assess if it would be fine for 100 square meters room. Melq is 15W and approximately 20dB gain. My concern is not with advising you how the Melq would perform vs. Lamms or Tenors (I know those amps very well) but if you have enough power to drive a 1700 square feet room.  You see, Melquiades uses fixed bias  (for sonic reasons) but the 6C33C with fixed bias might behave peculiarly at high grid voltages. To drive1700 square feet you would/might need to drive the 6C33C quite hard. So, I do not feel comfortable to suggested you anything that I have no reasons to suggest …

If you got for prototype and I proposed you above then you would be able to assess the result yourself. In case if you feel that you more power then your could always replaces the Melq output tubes with more powerful triode (211, GM70 or whatever you prefer…) The Melq driver stage will drive those tubes and if the output stage and it’s power supply would be done properly then the Melquiadenization effect should not be hurt, as a dominating factor in the Melq sound cames from Melquiades’ driver stage

Rgs,
Romy the caT

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