Never seen this before

[mep]

Has anyone ever heard of a tube amp that almost doubles it power into 4 ohms vice what it puts out into 8 ohms?? Me neither.

http://www.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls.pl?ampstube&1319755041&/Cayin-9088D-Monoblocks

 

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Mark,

This is from Elusive Disc:

http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CAYMA9088D

http://www.elusivedisc.com/CAYMA9088D.pdf

Rich

 

[mep]

Interesting. The owner's manual only claims 60 watts and nothing else while these other jokers are claiming 80/140. Unless the output load is severely mismatched into 8 ohms, there is no way this thing can almost double its output power into 4 ohms. This is the provenance of SS amps.

 

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Mark,

Even my SS stereo First Watt M2 power amp outputs only 25 watts Class A @ 8 ohms and 40 watts @ 4ohms per channel. My big SS Aragon Palladium 1K monoblocks only put out 125 watts Class A @ 8 ohms; 400 watts Class A/B @ 8 ohms, 600 watts Class A/B @ 4 ohms, and 1000 watts Class A/B @ 2 ohms.

Rich