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I went today to Srajan’s site check the news and saw the following:

“April 08 - New HalfNote Audio brand: The latest addition to Mr. Barnum's growing stable of import/export products are the $70,000/pr 50-watt parallel 845 Grail SET monos by Chalice Audio which are driven from a 300B with a 5681 input triode. At 150 lbs for the pair, the Grails pack serious iron and at 400 watts consume stout juice to become the latest entry into the high-power SET sweepstakes driven up in price and expectation by Vladimir Lamm's most recent GM70 monoblocks. A current Positive Feedback Online review comments on sonics of the Chalice Audio Grails.”

Surely the session for high-price, high power SET idiocy is opened, but how about we apply my DSET rule: “Any SET that cost more than $5K is west of design objective and it could be easily defeated by a DSET”

The $70,000 for the parallel 845? Why the 845 need to be parallel to begin with? Because they need more power at LF? So, we have compromised parallel MF amplification juts because bass need more power? In any SET amplifier bass region is distinctively different animal with the rest of the region and need own handling.

I hope people embrace DSET notion as the only negative effect of a properly implemented DSET is that it drivers the prices significantly down - that is not a good idea for high-end audio at all….

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