Transcendent Mini Beast Build
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#16 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Hang on!
Steve.... you've built an OTL..... and its not a radio transmitter or valve destroyer?! You've changed!
PS. looks awethumne, well done. I really really like the OTL's I've heard so far.
Steve.... you've built an OTL..... and its not a radio transmitter or valve destroyer?! You've changed!
PS. looks awethumne, well done. I really really like the OTL's I've heard so far.
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#17 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Scary isn't it?Dave the bass wrote: ↑Wed Oct 10, 2018 7:00 pm Hang on!
Steve.... you've built an OTL..... and its not a radio transmitter or valve destroyer?! You've changed!
Must be the meditation practice I've been doing daily for the last two months. Very Zen.
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#18 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Seem to be a very reliable amp, run the telly through mine so it’s used pretty much every night. Never put a foot wrong in a couple of years’ use.
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#19 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Very good, well done.
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#20 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Excellent Steve. I kind of celebrated for you this evening by listening to some Dusty Springfield!
Ray
Ray
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
#21 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Bruce said the front panel change is due to China vs Trump tariffs so he now make them in house.
Any comments on the sound of the amp?
Beautiful build!
Any comments on the sound of the amp?
Beautiful build!
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#22 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
It sounds natural, with a voices in the room quality, I haven't experienced in my own system since hearing the 300B SE OTL I built for our Ant's client. The Son of Beast push pull OTL owned by Dave (Thermionic Idler) also has this quality, so I'm assuming it is something peculiar to OTLs in general, because I haven't had this in the room quality, to this standard from anything else, valve or solid state.
I've been having a ball with my Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jnr, Matt Monro, Van Morrison, Randy Crawford, Eva Cassidy, Eliane Elias, Joni Mitchell, Mario Biondi, Scott walker, Elvis and early Cliff Richard. The Mini-Beast does produce more than its fair share of head-shaking moments.
Basses sound natural and realistically textured, and well judged, being neither too dry or too loose, and the LF itself goes very deep, which is fun with bass synths. I didn't think my sealed boxes went that low.
Brass and woodwind is full bodied and natural, and piano sounds like piano. Electric guitar, either jazzily warm or crunchy, fuzztone rock also does the biz.
The soundstage is proper wall to wall speaker vanishing stuff, and front to back although constrained by my back to wall speaker placement is excellent, as is the impression of proper height.
It works beautifully with my big Fane full range drivers. They are a superb match; probably due to simple crossoverless nature of the speakers. Oh for a 15 ohm version of the Fane 12-250TC
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#23 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Only fly in the ointment is the nearly 300W power consumption. The thing sounds fantastic, so much so that I might consider one, but I would have to limit my listening to keep the leccy bill down. But........maybe.........no.......stop being silly!
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#24 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
But then you would be in the market for the 300B SE-OTL, or maybe even the 6C33C build that Wolfgang took the lead on!
Sorry, I couldn't resist!
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#25 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Very nice & neat indeed !
I worked out that 1W / year is just over 1 quid
So to run this 24/7 would cost around GBP 310 (but would cut down on the heating somewatt)
I worked out that 1W / year is just over 1 quid
So to run this 24/7 would cost around GBP 310 (but would cut down on the heating somewatt)
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#26 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
So that's about 3.5 pence per hour, or 28p for 8 hours use.
Not a lot really.
Not a lot really.
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#27 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
You two are slowly convincing me.
Our Ant came and heard it a couple of days ago and said "do it"
Our Ant came and heard it a couple of days ago and said "do it"
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#28 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
Steve, I was wanting to send you a PM but you seem to have disabled your PM facility.
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#29 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
It's back on now.
A leftover from all the nastiness of a few months ago. I got inundated with messages from knobheads, and people who I would have thought would have known better.
Hopefully it'll stay quiet now.
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#30 Re: Transcendent Mini Beast Build
You could factor in the cost of the valves as well as the 'leccy but who cares if it sounds good?