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Jeff of Arabica Seasoned Member Name the greatest of all inventors... Accident. Posts: 968	Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! 12/07/20 at 16:13:18 From Steve Guttenberg, Audiophiliac Daily Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWA5txLQCvg
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ovs-audio Verified Member Posts: 16	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #1 - 12/07/20 at 17:46:02 Verry nice congrats !!
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esewell Verified Member Posts: 9	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #2 - 12/07/20 at 18:30:21 Congratulations Steve. Very well-deserved recognition of your years of dedicated effort! Ed
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Costas Verified Member Posts: 14	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #3 - 12/07/20 at 19:16:18 Congrats to Steve and Decware!!! Bravo!!!
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HockessinKid Seasoned Member Posts: 1090	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #4 - 12/07/20 at 20:11:54 Congratulations, well deserved Team Decware. HK
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Dominick Seasoned Member Still like that old time Rock and Roll!! Posts: 1157	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #5 - 12/07/20 at 20:44:28 Congratulations Steve!! Something tells me the real time amp build list just jumped up another month in que!! What a great a review. Dom
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piezoman Ex Member	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #6 - 12/07/20 at 22:18:45 OUTSTANDING!
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Melvin Ex Member	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #7 - 12/07/20 at 23:36:00 Congrats Steve and the team!
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hdrider Seasoned Member On the path with Decware. Posts: 695	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #8 - 12/08/20 at 01:12:38 Well do Zen Master Steve and Team Decware. Of course we already knew this bit of info...Happy Listening, Chris.
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Doug Seasoned Member Posts: 274	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #9 - 12/08/20 at 04:12:28 This makes me very happy! Congratulations on more well deserved recognition, Steve!
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CAJames Seasoned Member "I've run every red light on memory lane." Posts: 1652	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #10 - 12/08/20 at 04:39:50 Well deserved, obviously. But what took so long?
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Stefan Seasoned Member Posts: 119	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #11 - 12/09/20 at 00:18:59 Congrats Steve and team Decware! Well deserved, keep the innovations coming :)
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canonken

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Reply #12 - 12/09/20 at 02:42:09

I saw that, so exciting and not surprising based on the retail price, review, and generally how cool this is!

And I noticed the amp waiting list is up to 236 orders (and only thru noon on Black Friday, so likely more orders to be added for that day on top of anything between then and now, and after that review!). I'm at about #125 as of this moment and have 22 assorted tubes I've purchased over the past month!

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canonken Seasoned Member Posts: 151	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #13 - 12/11/20 at 19:11:17 Now up to 276 orders!!! Looks like quite a surge came in...between the BF coupon and the Component of the Year award. Would not surprise me to see it hit 300. Do we need to buy Steve some coffee
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lazb Seasoned Member Posts: 374	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #14 - 12/11/20 at 20:52:28 Great news for Steve and Decware! Makes me wonder if there is anyone out there with above average soldering skills that would like to work in East Peoria, Ill.!! Perhaps Steve could use another hand?
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canonken Seasoned Member Posts: 151	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #15 - 12/11/20 at 21:42:43 And 283...
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Donnie Seasoned Member Why does it hurt when I pee? Posts: 2194	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #16 - 12/11/20 at 22:07:22 Holy crap, you can definitely see the day that the Audiophiliac review came out. There have been at least 24-25 SE84UFO's ordered. That is a good weeks worth of orders. And everyone said that low powered tube amplifiers were silly!
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canonken Seasoned Member Posts: 151	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #17 - 12/12/20 at 04:13:49 Oh 285 my apologies, the team is working late! Yeah Steve certainly proved his worth with that video!
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Jeff of Arabica Seasoned Member Name the greatest of all inventors... Accident. Posts: 968	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #18 - 12/12/20 at 08:05:14 Quote: Now up to 276 orders!!! Looks like quite a surge came in...between the BF coupon and the Component of the Year award. Would not surprise me to see it hit 300. Do we need to buy Steve some coffee :) I tried.... he doesn't drink coffee 🤷
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Rivieraranch Seasoned Member Posts: 2126	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #19 - 12/12/20 at 10:46:10 Let's all chip in and give Guttenberg a haircut.
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MrDerrick Seasoned Member May The Source Be With You! Posts: 180	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #20 - 12/12/20 at 15:06:27 I have to wonder; Have Decware and or Klipsch speaker sales increased also? Has there been a spike in new registered site members?
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canonken Seasoned Member Posts: 151	Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!! Reply #21 - 12/12/20 at 15:16:25 Quote: Let's all chip in and give Guttenberg a haircut. OMG I can't even imagine!
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canonken

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Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!!
Reply #22 - 12/12/20 at 15:30:16

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Have Decware and or Klipsch speaker sales increased also?

Well I think the Decware build list is a pretty clear sign things have taken off! For Klipsch, 100% chance they have increased (especially on the RP-600M which he raved about...and are on sale for $440 at the moment), but those probably had a high base sales rate to start with, so even hundreds of extra sales a month wouldn't be a huge percentage change to national or global sales (and Klipsch can increase production). The big question for me is Heritage speaker sales (specifically Steve Guttenberg raving about the Cornwall IV, which is likely the most 'usable' of the line). Those have always been niche (and latest models/version VERY expensive...and huge!) and in general, not an 'audiophile' speaker in the typical high-brow sense. I would not be surprised to learn if there were more people taking a second look at those, and buying. I also doubt (pandemic aside) there are many dealers who display them due to the size and past popularity. I get the feeling a lot of people buy them sound unheard and sight unseen.

The UFO is likely doing so well because it's just a thousand bucks, it's small, it's easy to insert into an existing system.

How many rave-review 'audiophile' products are a thousand bucks (let alone for an integrated amp hand-made in the USA)? That is the temptation.

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Re: Decware Zen Triode Amp - Component of the Year!!
Reply #23 - 12/12/20 at 17:20:46

Speaking of Cornwalls I just got an email from a customer who contacted Klipsch wanting to know what they recommended as the minimum amplifier power for the Cornwall and they wrote back 100 watts. I told him that was sad to hear since it's not actually true and rather misleading. So at best, he is confused as hell which isn't a good state to be in when you're ready to pull the trigger on a pair of loudspeakers.

If we were talking about solid state amplification, as a speaker manufacture my big concern would be clipping. It's easier to blow up a 100 watt speaker with a 10 watt solid state amplifier than it is to blow up a 10 watt speaker with a 100 watt solid state amplifier because the later is less likely to clip.

So I can see where the 100 watt figure comes from, but whoever answered the phone over there may want to consider finding out if an SET is involved... possibly consider listening to one.

Steve

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canonken

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Reply #24 - 12/12/20 at 17:47:06

That is unfortunate. Probably a call center worker looked at the spec sheet (100W continuous/400W peak) and just parroted back that number. But even at that, seems for Klipsch the simple message would be 'quality over quantity'.

LOL, I cannot imaging putting 100W of real power into those speakers in a domestic environment. If my math is right, that would be about 120 dB. of output!!!

I appreciate how Tekton gives confidence of using as little as 1 watt to drive some of their speakers, as of course everything you sell.

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