SE OTL amps for high eff. speakers? (Off Topic)

by MikeH , Sunday, April 13, 2008, 12:37 (5854 days ago) @ anubisgrau
edited by MikeH, Sunday, April 13, 2008, 12:49

My friend uses the 8 watt Transcendent SE OTL amp with AER MK1 in singulars.
He is very happy with it. In his words: "it sounds very clear and powerful, much lesser distortion than the EL84"

And that EL84 amp he is talking about is a very nice amp. I haven't heard his Transcendent yet. His tastes are for crisp, clean and clear female vocals. Like The Carpenters for example.

For the same power you're looking at some of the biggest single ended triodes, or for the same money 20 watts of class A solid state. It looks like a lot of amp for the money. Sure it's got the advantage of being transformerless, but how linear are the output tubes going to be? Is it really single ended if it has tubes in parallel? I think if an amp has more than one output tube you should make it push-pull class A. That's just what I think, I am definitely not any sort of expert. I almost bought the T16 a few months ago.