23-12-2024, 06:21 PM
I've been watching this unfold & commented on the original video echoing Jeremy's comment about putting tantalum caps across power supply rails as tants fail SC as seen in vintage Tektronix scopes etc. I also had a swipe at the "genius at work" caption on Tom's website. In fairness though Tom may have written that with tongue in cheek. We're Englishmen, we don't blow our own Trumpets, the American's do, they also go woohoo a lot instead of politely clapping.
I read Tom's response, there's always two sides. Regardless, packaging heavy items is an art & also an engineering exercise, not everyone is good at it as we all know.
As to design of the preamp, I can't comment, the 25 grand price tag is excessive to most of us, but there are other factors in play. As a very minor maker of valve amps I know how much work goes into making them & how hard it is to sell them to cover my costs. I've lost money on every one, but I build amps for the love of it, not as a business. If you do want to sell hifi amps in the low numbers a one man workshop can make, like all things in this world you need spiel, some blurb to make your product stick out: it's the way of the world. Yes we know most of it is BS, but a bloke with 25 grand to spare & who doesn't know a long tailed pair from a differential IP.....
I think all the waffle on YT & elsewhere is just the same old righteous indignation we humans like to engage in, we love to have a good old moan. Ce la vie.
Ho ho ho, have good un, love & peace to you all, Andy.
I read Tom's response, there's always two sides. Regardless, packaging heavy items is an art & also an engineering exercise, not everyone is good at it as we all know.
As to design of the preamp, I can't comment, the 25 grand price tag is excessive to most of us, but there are other factors in play. As a very minor maker of valve amps I know how much work goes into making them & how hard it is to sell them to cover my costs. I've lost money on every one, but I build amps for the love of it, not as a business. If you do want to sell hifi amps in the low numbers a one man workshop can make, like all things in this world you need spiel, some blurb to make your product stick out: it's the way of the world. Yes we know most of it is BS, but a bloke with 25 grand to spare & who doesn't know a long tailed pair from a differential IP.....
I think all the waffle on YT & elsewhere is just the same old righteous indignation we humans like to engage in, we love to have a good old moan. Ce la vie.
Ho ho ho, have good un, love & peace to you all, Andy.
