I was getting to the point where I liked what I heard, but Tube Lust was setting in. It is here that we enter into the project at hand. As I was surfing through all the neat things on the Net regarding audio, and weeding through all the BS, I began to read good things about Single Ended amps. At first, I thought 8 watts was pretty stupid. But, the more I read, and the more I thought about it, it all started to make sense.
Feedback is bad.
Music is all timing, and feedback falls apart when asked to work in the time domain. I also believe in less is more. Furthering my interest was their lineage to the transmitting tubes. The simple beginner's schematic looked easy to build, but I wondered how it sounded. Here was almost the exact same circuit as the Svetlana schematic, and it was very well received.