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In Reply to: Re: Check the archives,Welborne's the winner. posted by Square Peg on October 15, 2006 at 16:39:43:
I have both the Welborne 45 tube rectifed DRD and the 300b DRD SS rectified amps. On my 6 foot tall horn speakers twin JBL 15" woofer bass bins I had no lack of bass using a single pair of 45 mono blocks driving my 2-way horn set up with a passive crossover. Of course my bass bins are 100dB efficient at 1 Watt and my horns are around 112dB efficient @ 1W. Still no lack of bass using just the single pair of 45 DRD amps. I prefer the 45 tube sound for the horns because to my ears the 45 makes the voices much more natural and more realistic sounding to my ears. The 300b DRD are also very musical and very good sounding. I would not describe their sound as sterile to my ears. Again the bass was tight and not lacking on either pair of amplifiers with my speakers. I used both individually for many months as single system amplifirs. I used the 45 and 300b with passive crossovers before going to a active speaker crossover to biamplify my system. The one thing I will mention is it took a LONG time for my new 45 DRD amps to fully open up. They sounded good to begin with and got better over the first 50 hours. But after some months they just opened up and bloomed. I had to get up from the next room to see if something was wrong with my stereo.. Give them time to settle in before you start serious tweaking like capacitor changes or real critical listening. Have fun with your Welborne DRD amps. You will find the quality of the parts used, and the fit and finish was very good on the Welborn amplifiers. They Welborne amplifiers look much nicer when viewed in person than the images on his web site. I have used a 100 wpc CJ tube amplifier and my pair of Klimo push pull EL34 amps. The Klimo were the first pair of ss rectified amps I owned. The CJ is gone now but the Klimo mono block amplifiers are still are used on occasion in my systems. I still use both the Welborne 45 and 300b mono block amps the most together with my vacuum tube active speaker crossover to drive my stereo. Enjoy your new Welborne amps! John
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