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Merlin, I have nothing against Bernings, in fact I found it all educational as I never had exposure to them. Well, perhaps I did hear them at some kind of hi-fi show but just did not paid attention. I hardly believe that I will hear Bernings as I’m loosing more and more interest to amplifiers out there, do not go to shows/demos and hardly ever willing to practice lately in listening of other playbacks. The glories and Moronic times of audiophic Psychoticism are gone for me... I have interest only in a very limited scope of subjects that I am interested, no more or less, and my experience with “new” is restricted not my exposure but my wish…. That all makes highly unlikely that I will hear that Siegfried SET.

Considering above, I might only to bark to the passing train, regardless if the train cares gold of shit.  So, subsequent with “barking instinct” I will tell you what I do not like in that Bernings saga – I do not like how David Berning and you talk and to think about the advantages of Berning topology.

I read careful what David says about his ideas and there are very many slippery moments that do not make me comfortable. I would defiantly not implicate David in the moments but in what we hear from others we’re mostly looking in their expressed thinking the moments that are related to our experience. In what David say I like many aspects beside the rational the leaded him to invention of his amplifiers. In his experiments David got rid of transformer and replaced it with a DC transformer, claiming that it is “better”. His “A Time to Dream” section is clearly indicates that David tend to conceptual thinking and in design his amplifier he was fighting with absentminded engineering objectives and design an amplifiers instead of designing of Sound, Do you remember the biblical tail how Jacob left his uncle Laban , the spotted sheep story? I personally accept or believe in nothing less than that “designs philosophy”. Therefore the David’s complains about what he see dissatisfying in transformers, cyclotrons or Futtermans  I take with a certain dose of skepticism.

If (a definitive “if”) that Siegfried sounds interesting then it sounds interesting but it is NOT because what you and David are trying to convince yourself and others. The allegatively-positive sound from Siegfried is NOT an indication that transformers are bad and I feel Davis preoccupation with the subject of “transformer hate” is juts his obsession. (That he is perfectly entitled to have, BTW).

As for me, I feel a little difficult to accept an idea of using 70-years ago-made direct heated triode and then drive with it a pulse amplifier. From a different perspective I did not feel absurd a couple years ago to accept an idea of a time delay machine for upperbass horns that use FM modulator/demodulator, what a hypostat!!!

The “resulting sound” is the only one thing that maters, right? If so then, let toss away the prejudges and let the that Siegfried to fight for it’s space under sun. It looks like he does the things for you and for your ported JBL driver, the driver that enfeebled you to feel “extremes limitation due to the ML2’s core saturation”....

Ok,ok, ok it was not your quote but it was very close… :-)

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