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guy sergeant
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Post #: 21
Post ID: 2424
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Re: Transistor operarting temperature
Romy,

Did you ever listen to a Class A amp made by Andy Rapapport which later became the Octave Research OR1?

I never opened one up to look but I remember someone telling me (possibly salesman BS, I can't remember) about how much attention was paid in that amplifier to maintaining an incredibly stable operating temperature. I remember using one for a while and it definitely took several days to settle down but once it had, it was better than any other SS amp I've listened to before or since.
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Romy the Cat


Boston, MA
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Post #: 22
Post ID: 2425
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Zarathustra’s operarting temperature

Nope I’m not familiar with Octave Research OR1. I heard about Andy Rapapport but I never heard or have seen his amps. My thinking about all of this has littler rational and even less experience. I would never think about SS but the phenomenal success with Placette buffer make me to extend some credit to SS. The Zarathustra’s prototype was interesting. I run it on Kharma 3,2 and Wilson Alexandria and it demonstrated some great potential.  From my perspectives it had some issues but none of them related to what usually attributed to SS amplifiers. In the new complete Zarathustra version will be done a LOT to take care about temperature it it will be very different amp, much more advanced. We in fact will be able to drive the output stage in the chosen my us temperature. We juts do not know which temperature to target and how it will affect sound. I feel it will be a lot of listing, testing and interpretations before Zarathustra will be complete…

Rgs,
Romy


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Romy the Cat


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Post #: 23
Post ID: 12983
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The Greek Hybrid amplifiers.
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I do not know this company but they might do interesting hybrids…

http://www.ypsilonelectronics.com

http://www.ypsilonelectronics.com/technology.htm

The caT


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Romy the Cat


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The Robert Koda’s Takumi K-70 hybrid
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Here is another interesting hybrid. The gain stage is made around 5842 tube, most likely with feedback and the current stage is SS reportedly single-ended and in class A.  They claim 150W, if it is in Class A and without PP then frankly I do not see a lot of surface to dissipate the heat.

http://www.robert-koda.com/product.html

However, God knows what they did in there. It reported that it has 32 transistors by channel, sure they did try to built a lot of current, how long it will stay in class A is not know. Did anybody hear the thing?

The Cat


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