You listen to these two and you are rather surprised at how wildly different they sound - I like them both but to me the 45 has a kind of magic the 2a3 lacks. Once again both amps use the same general parts - the same kind of transformers, wiring resistor/cap etc Both are flea-watt SET. The Audio Note Paladin and Vindicator - are 2 watts and 3.5 watts respectively and both are about the same price - around $6,000. Just as SET amps often sound very different - a Meishu and Jinro are both SET and sound very little alike. It doesn't really get much polar opposite in sound than that. My dealer in Canada hands down prefers the SORO over the OTO - when Don (who worked as a salesman there for 40+ years retired he bought a SORO (and Soundhounds sold practically everything over 40 years so it says a helluva lot that of all the thousands of amplifiers that went through the SORO (relatively modestly priced for AN) was his final amplifier that he retired with. He almost exclusively listens to classical music. To him there is no comparison - the OTO is hands down the better amplifier (and it's less money).
My dealer in Hong Kong can't stand the SORO - he hates it so much he doesn't carry it. At the end of the day it's going to come down to how the stuff works with your preamp music and taste.Īudio Note and Synthesis and many other tube amp companies make amplifiers that sound rather wildly different from each other.Įxample: There are Audio Note OTO people and there are Audio Note SORO people - I like to use these two amps as my example because they use the exact same preamplifier stage and roughly the same parts quality throughout.
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