A Challenge for Stewart Pinkerton


Hi Stewart,

In response to Andre's KISS amp you gave us your solid state KISASS
amplifier design, although you never built it. Considering this is
actually a tube group, and you are a very clever engineer, I challenge you
to design a tube amp for the group that will meet your exacting standards,
show some originality, and be relatively simple in concept and design. In
this challenge, since you are a solid state guy, negative feedback can be
used freely, and there is no need to actually build the amplifier, as long
as it is a reasonably simple and practical design capable of an output of
a few Watts of high quality audio. The question is do you have the
necessary engineering skills to actually meet the challenge?


Regards,

John Byrns


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