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  1. Give me a good reasonThere are plenty of products worth owning but only a very few worth buying and even fewer worth switching. If you have something in your home...
  2. Narrowing down the choicesIf I walk into a restaurant and open the menu to be faced with 100 different choices: Italian, American, a little bit of this and a...
  3. So sorry, we have no bananasMy little riff on power amplifiers and how I could tell I had a winner really sparked off a lot of comments and questions of where...
  4. Slap in the faceYesterday I wrote about a new power amp technology that simply blew my skirt up to the point where I have cleansed the listening room of...
  5. Shaking your worldNot often I run into something that simply shakes up my world and when that happens it's hard for me to not stop everything we're doing...
  6. The bestAfter yesterday's post about hearing the worst performance of a high-end system in a long time I would like to share with you the best which...
  7. The worstI am visiting the high-end show in Tokyo at the moment and last night, between demonstrations of the system, I was wandering the halls of the...
  8. Why I design with solid state exclusivelyIt may sound funny, the headline of this post. I love the sound of tubes, have owned tons of tube equipment and yet - I have...
  9. A bias right in the middleHow boring if you're biased right in the middle eh? You don't lean to the left or the right, you're just middle of the road for...
  10. Best of both worldsIf you've managed to wade through this series of posts on tubes vs. transistors you'd know that while there are indeed fundamental differences between tubes and...
  11. Odd or even?No doubt you've heard terms like class A, push pull, , SET, full complimentary, single ended etc. These terms all refer to how we use an...
  12. Solid state vs. fieldsThis post will most likely stand the hair up on the back of EE necks because it'll be riddled with inaccuracies I will use to make...
  13. High voltage and linearityIn yesterday's post we covered the fundamental differences between tubes and transistors and one of those we're interested in is linearity. Tubes and transistors are only...