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Well, Merlin, it looks like I will have to take my lumps if I hope to get relevant information from you.  Am I the first person you've encountered who feels you enjoy the idea that you always have something up your sleeve?  I'm not a freaking mind reader.

As for being "au fait" with the Siegfried, no I never had one in my own system, but that was for the reasons I gave you, along with the obvious power limitations (not that the Lamm has "solved" those...).  And, no, I never took it upon myself to gain specific knowledge of the circuit because, frankly, I only care about that stuff in terms of the sound, and I only care about the sound as it serves the music, contrary to your own assumption.  In other words, the more I hear the system, per se, the less I like it.  But are you saying the Siegfried makes the rest of your system truly disappear?  Of course you are right that the Lamm distorts and compresses when it gets stressed.  How, again, does that contrast with the Siegfried?

I like to hear the composition, all right, and I also like to hear the playing, the direction, the instrumental and/or vocal pitch, timber and dynamics, interplay, and a whole lot more in addition to the composition.  I agree that the Siegfried is pitched rather well, and this is very important to me.  But I find there's more to tone than pitch, at least as it relates to music, and now you are getting into the area that is the ML2's special province.

RIP, Harvey R.; he was quite the character, all right.  I remember back when he had lynch mobs after him over those self-destructing amps he hawked out of Brooklyn.  I also heard the Futterman, BTW, for about 1/2 hour; then it blew up.  I don't know much about it, either.  However, I do know that Harvey couldn't care less about "accuracy"; all he cared about was emotion.  Add, subtract or divide "the signal", in his own words he just wanted to feel the music.  Yes, he had definite ideas about how to handle a signal to arrive at his ends, but he was also a non-stop pitch man, with a phrase for every occasion.  Bob Fulton and Bob Carver come immediately to mind as birds of a feather.

You are of course correct that I am not a TAD expert, either.  But I am pretty sure that you, yourself, don't pursue something unless you have reason to believe it would work for you.

Although I do take a pretty much hair shirt approach to hi-fi I do not share your apparent certainty that the untouched signal is what I'm after; nor am I convinced that the Siegfired is the least approach, in any event, and so far you have not exactly bolstered that case with your rhetoric.

Best regards,
Paul S

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