Good question Scotty. Hal I believe Audioreview.com and audioinsurgence did a review. I goggled it.
charles
Hi Charles,
I saw the audio insurgence review, it was part of X magazine getting back at me after they had ball peened
my test 10A line preamplifier because I would not sell it to them for $300.00.
This article is the second time, and there was a third time, as well as another rag for a year+ on AC forum,
By the way, the 11A is one chassis, not four chassis as the article falsely claims. How could they get that
wrong. The rest of the article is similar fiction, so I would not put too much faith in it.
On AC, I was setting up a group audition of the 11A in Milwaukee for the "next" week. I asked the group for no
"professional" reviewers, just a group of individuals. The audition was set up, and the very night before, the
author of this article emails me that he is a reviewer. I should have cancelled, but foolishly did not.
I just new the screw was coming.
When I arrived at the gents house, the audio room was not even finished. It was quite large, no furnishings
except a couch, hard walls and hardwood floors. No room treatments at all. The ic from preamplifier to amp
was some 25 feet or more long.
At 30pf per foot, a total of 750pf, close to a 0,001uf capacitor (uf terms might be easier to understand).
Try sticking that size capacitor across the output of your amplifier let alone a preamplifier and hear what
happens. It takes high current. Even 25pf/foot we are talking 625pf, or .000625uf.
Of course the day was a disaster, yet the author wrote this fictional article.
By the way, I never received another call from that way concerning my products.
Sometime before this, I had been to a shootout of 2 modified SS amps at Audio Jerry's house. I had brought
along my 10A line preamplifier. After supper, we replaced the Eastern Electric Minimax with NOS tubes with my 10A
using modern tubes. Jerry's system sounded pretty descent as is by the way.
There is a string, I believe started by Audio Jerry with Earlmarc etc on Audio Circle Forum. Tube section.
Anyway, you now know what happened behind the scenes that inspired the fictional article. All because I would
not sell my test 10A line preamplifier for $300.00 a few years earlier.
cheers
steve