Και νέοι και ωραίοι: Thorens TEM 3200 monoblocks.

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Ενδιαφέρουσες οι σχεδιαστικές επιλογές της Thorens για τα μεγάλα monoblock της (στα €17.500/ το ζευγάρι)...
Το review είναι εκτενές, αναλυτικό και με πολλά τεχνικά στοιχεία (σε σημείο να απορείς πως γίνεται να συνυπάρχει με αυτό στο ίδιο website). Αξίζει να το διαβάσετε.

Τα βασικά σημεία της σχεδίασης των 3200:

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The Thorens TEM 3200s combine the tone, immediacy and microdynamics of power triodes with the unwavering, full-bandwidth control and linearity of transistor muscle amps.

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Without hyperbole or bad promises, Frank Blöhbaum's and Heinz Rohrer's amplifier creations behave like triodes on steroids. Just as steroids can be abused to produce unnatural results, unrealistic speaker choices deep in the high-efficiency sector can exhibit unnatural control as though held on too tight a leash. This only effects the gestalt of the presentation and intrudes less and less as the load becomes matched more appropriately to the grip of steel these amps exert. Technically a tour de force of innovative design, aesthetically elegant, operationally warm but not excessively hot like class A, these amplifiers create full-blown triode tone and SET immediacy on non-triode speakers - plus the kind of limitless dynamics and optimized bass response such speaker owners expect and demand. Now hi-eff triode man with his secret subwoofers is finally flat out of justifications for why his preferences seemed necessary. The TEM 3200s make that sound from conventional speakers which for all intents and purposes then act like high-efficiency speakers in dynamics and whisper-level satisfaction.

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earlier quoted review conclusion of nationalistic pride. Yet my encounter strongly suggests that it's perfectly appropriate. These Thorens monos have all the requisite qualities to dominate a world championship (and with the latter's four-year recurrence, one safely avoids any totalitarianism). All things considered -- what they do, how they do it and what you can drive with 'em -- these are quite possibly the best amps I've yet had the privilege to audition. That they're simultaneously more amps than most people need goes without saying. Playing at the edge of the art always is.

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A standing ovation is in order!

Full Review: 6moons.com

 

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Ο Blöhbaum αναλύει βασικά σημεία του "Blöhbaum System" όπως αυτό έχει εφαρμοστεί στον TEM3200:

1. 100% symmetrical amplifier and 100% freedom of using any active part in the circuit.
2. Use of only one extremely powerful MOSFET of the most modern type for each output stage.
3. Use of high transconductance tubes for the voltage amplifier and driver stage.
4. Local feedback loop in the output stage.
5. Never switched output devices.
6. DC coupling throughout.
7. Foolproof protection against overload and thermal runaway.
8. Ultra wide bandwidth and very low open-loop distortion.
9. Self-cancelling magnetic fields.
10. Symmetrical slew rate.

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