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Re: Sarcasm obviously...

Hobby,

I cannot believe it! You're actually agreeing with something I've said? Are you trying to give me a heart attack? As you picked up from the beginning the comments I originally made were partly sarcastic. Aczel's primary concern is that the amp have high input impedance, low output impedance, flat frequency response, low distortion, low noise floor, and is not clipped. I believe it's assinine on Aczel's part to think that circuit topology and quality of parts used plays absolutely no part in how an amplifier "sounds" yet Aczel makes no mention or consideration of them.

You ask me could I use the cheapest parts I can possibly find to achieve amplifier that can take the abuse of being over-driven, dropped and banged around and still keep ticking? I believe that's quite possible. For example: Being dropped and banged around and still keep ticking means building the amp to absorb damage, it really has nothing to do with the parts quality used, as it does with protecting those parts from damage. This amp could be built as easily with 1% tolerance parts as with 10% tolerance parts, but the 10% tolerance parts will be cheaper. Hence my comment about using the cheapest parts you can find.

By the way Hobby, you're 100% correct not all pro amplifiers are designed to be overdriven, I should have said clipped. I was thinking in home amps terms not musical instrument amp terms. To me an amplifier that's being overdriven is being clipped. But I remember well using a guitar amp with overdrive!

Thetubeguy1954

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