Been way too long and missing many wonderful things happen in the forum
to busy sorry to say .
Most of you know that i currently construct P3A and allready produced 5231 different PCB implementing mods and different styles .
2026 will be 20 years ( man time flyies ) that i am doing that .....
So since i am having a brake from too much work ( had a really rough last year concidering volume of work ) i am willing to construct once more but this time with regulated rails or capacitance multiplier ....
Quad did in the past , Naim did in the past and soon (since classAB is a dead end ) we will see one of the big names of hi end comming with one machine ( range 50K ) that will be a typical hi end class AB ( includes extreme enclosure style and loads of transistors ) but this time with IGBT regulated rails .
Question is that if anyone thinks that is going to be any audible benefit from that ?
Question is that if this benefit will apply from low listening level till clip ?
Question is regulated rails or capacitance multiplier and why ?
My only previous expirience was with QUAD wich the all thing was single rail, capacitor coupled, sorry excuse of amplifier circuit .
BUT !!, people that used them actually as pro amps in small bars said that they sound very good , amplifier is indestructable and impossible to destroy a speaker with it ... ( probably this has not much to do with regulated rails , but mostly because is capacitor coupled )
Place your comments please
i will be more than happy to listen
thank you
to busy sorry to say .
Most of you know that i currently construct P3A and allready produced 5231 different PCB implementing mods and different styles .
2026 will be 20 years ( man time flyies ) that i am doing that .....
So since i am having a brake from too much work ( had a really rough last year concidering volume of work ) i am willing to construct once more but this time with regulated rails or capacitance multiplier ....
Quad did in the past , Naim did in the past and soon (since classAB is a dead end ) we will see one of the big names of hi end comming with one machine ( range 50K ) that will be a typical hi end class AB ( includes extreme enclosure style and loads of transistors ) but this time with IGBT regulated rails .
Question is that if anyone thinks that is going to be any audible benefit from that ?
Question is that if this benefit will apply from low listening level till clip ?
Question is regulated rails or capacitance multiplier and why ?
My only previous expirience was with QUAD wich the all thing was single rail, capacitor coupled, sorry excuse of amplifier circuit .
BUT !!, people that used them actually as pro amps in small bars said that they sound very good , amplifier is indestructable and impossible to destroy a speaker with it ... ( probably this has not much to do with regulated rails , but mostly because is capacitor coupled )
Place your comments please
i will be more than happy to listen
thank you
I'll jump in ...
There are some circuit configurations that benefit (much) more from regulated/cap-multiplied rails. I suppose p3a might not benefit that much - but I am no expert!