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<p align=right style='text-align:right'><b>The Class-A Amplifier Site</b></p>
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<p align=right style='text-align:right'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>This
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page was last updated on 14 September 2001</span></p>
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<p><b><span style='color:blue'>[ <a href="jlhsound.htm" title=jlhsound.htm>Back</a>
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<p align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-size:16.0pt'>Chris
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Ma’s email</span></b></p>
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<p>Geoff,<br>
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After ten hours plus listening to my newly built 1996 JLH amp I would like to
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put my two cents in your comment section of your web site. Firstly I must say
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that my Hi-Fi experience/background plays an important role for this judgment I
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am making, since I do not listen to enough live music to train my brain/ear to
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distinguish what is good or bad. I am pretty sure the majority of people grow
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up listening to music through reproduced media be it TV, radio, hi-fi, i.e.
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electronic sound one way or the other, digital or analogue. Please bear with me
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for my hi-fi experience. It started off when I was living in North London. My
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flat mates and I each bought a piece of equipment to make up the system, well
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we were students then. The system we had at the time was the Meridian 101 pre
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amp and 100 watt mono blocks power amps. Pink Triangle turn table and a 150
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quid worth of stylus (it was really expensive for us at the time) and the
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Tannoy Little Red Monitor speakers. Mostly we listened to half speed master LPs
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or Japanese pressed LPs. The range of music was from classical to classic rock
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by London Sympathy Orchestra, Boy George to Deep Purple. But when CD came along
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we gave away the system and LPs to friends and I did not buy or own another
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Hi-Fi system because CD sound was no comparison unless you have a very deep,
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deep pocket. Untill three years ago when DVD arrived, then I bought a system to
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watch movies with a Rotel A/V DTS 5.1 etc... the love of listening to music
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grows again. But I was not satisfied with the sound of my system so I try to
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improve the system within a budget of course. First I get into diy cables, then
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the Morrison ELAD, and now thanks to the internet and people like you I can
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build my own amplifier that I could never dreamed of doing myself without help.
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The JLH compares to the Rotel multi-channel (power section only) as follows:-
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The brightness/harsh high is gone. The vocal is a lot fuller. The four string
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bass has more emotion to the notes. The kick drum is easier to distinguish from
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the electric bass guitar. It has more depth in the sense of stage but narrower
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than the Rotel. The focus or image position is better with the JLH. It reviews
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the fine detail much, much more with ease. Certain tracks in some CDs I would
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not like to listen to before with the Rotel because they sounded really bad but
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now I can enjoy them with the JLH. The background noise is really quiet. I can
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enjoy heavy rock music again with the JLH because it can handle a lot of things
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going on musically without tiring me out with just noise. For such a simple
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design and inexpensive final product it is a very good amp. Now the JLH makes
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me really miss the Pink Triangle turntable. </p>
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Regards<br>
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Chris</p>
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<p><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt'>HISTORY:</span></b><span style='font-size:
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