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Trevor Wilson[_4_]

On 2/01/2020 7:41 am, wrote:
Do you sell boutique cables and interconnects?

Peter Wieck
Melrose Park, PA

**No. The most expensive cable I sell costs AUS$50.00/Metre pair. I
justify it, based on the fact that it uses good quality, PE insulated
copper, hand soldered, quality connectors.

What's your point? Are you seriously trying to defend the use of a
cheap, ****ty, Chinese tube amp in any good quality system?

You're fighting a losing battle. I've worked on more of these ****-box
amps than I care to think about. They, in many cases, look quite nice
(if you like that kind of style), but they introduce unacceptable levels
of (linear and non-linear) distortion.

FWIW: I have listened to a number of well built, very high performance
tube amps over the years (blind and sighted tests). In some cases, when
the speaker load was suitably benign, the tube amps performed as well as
a significantly less expensive SS amp. In most cases, the tube amps
performed worse.

Why defend their use?

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Trevor Wilson
www.rageaudio.com.au