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The Melquiades amplifiers practically dally demonstrate so much “interesting” behavior that it is not even funny. My relationship with this amp reminds me that bird for the Montaigne's “An Apologie Of Raymond Sebond”:

“But the tale of the plot is very strange, which Plutarke confidently witnessed to have seen: 'This jay was in a Barbers shop of Rome, and was admirable in counterfeiting with her voice whatsoever she heard: It fortuned one day that certain Trumpeters stayed before this shop and there sounded a good while; and being gone, all that day and the next after the plot began to be very sad, silent, and melancholy, whereat all men marveled, and surmised that the noise or clang of the trumpets had thus affrighted and dizzied her, and that with her hearing she had also lost her voice. But at last they found she was but in a deep study and dumpish, retracting into herself, exercising her mind, and preparing her voice to represent the sound, and express the noise of the Trumpets she had heard. And the first voice she uttered was that wherein she perfectly expressed their straines, their closes, and their changes: having by her new prentiship altogether quit, and as it were scorned whatever she could prattle before.”

A strange new story took plays today.

A couple months back when I saw what Melquiades could do I decided to go for a “Super Melquiades”, or basically the optimized version of Melquiades for a multi-channels operation. I was thinking to make the LF channel really-really outrages and I asked Dima if he could come up with absolutely crazy specification for an output transformer that would work only at sub 100Hz. Dima did come up with something and suggested that if I would be able to make it then it would be very “interesting”.  I dumped the task to Jack Elliano and many conversations he made the sucker. Jack was quite pleased with the results of this 450mA monster.

Well, yesterday I decided to test it and connect it to the Melquiades without changing anything else. It turned out that the transformer outputs a full 15W power at 7.5Hz and it is with very moderate operation point of 6C33C dissipating on plate juts 50W! In fact, the transformer handle at 7.5Hz not only 2V of input voltage (corresponding to 15W) but 2.7V. At 2.0V it begins to clip the sinusoid at 6.8Hz! This was quite amazing – there is not a lot of SS PP amps the can handle it at full power but this was a 7H of full class A1 SET!!!

Hm, the next this was to connect it to the layback and hear it. I do have a very good LF section that run very low, very flat in my room with a very good quality of bass, so I am accustomed to a quite good LF result but what I head was completely out of this world. It’s very hard to explain but whatever it was it left something in me. I was listening for one hour or two and then… I fell asleep. I woke up in a few hours, couple times, and after 15-20 minuets I was falling asleep again.  I woke up this morning in…. 16 hours…  that practically never happen to me. I usually sleep very little a 3-4 hour and almost never during a day. I know my body very well and I know that I am not sick or anything like this. So shat the hell is going on? Are any relations between the ultra low frequency reproduction and our intention to sleep?

Puzzling,
Romy the Cat

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