Anyone ever hear of these guys?

[P Town]

http://milbert.com/gaga

[christw]

I've seen them mentioned on here once before. Cool ideas. I just wonder how it lives up to its marketing.

[MuthaFunk]

Yeah, something seems a miss. I'm not sure how they can claim any tube and have it all self biasing.... My guess is there's a whole lot that will go wrong with your signal when mixing but it will give a unique sound that most other amp makers try to avoid. Perhaps a real original tone could be had.

[T-Bird]

Hi.

If this is what I think it is, that's just XOTL or whatever fancy name they put on the age old OTL technology.

So a sorts of a switch-mode converter in the place of the OT.

If You look at the number of OTL MI tube amps in the market, it will pretty soon be evident why this approach hasn't catch on.

Probably sort of nice when it works, but Auto-Everything™ means that the tone and behaviour of the amp is constantly changing, rendering it utterly useless in recording. IMHO anyway.

Regards
Sam

[MilbertCom]

ZOTL actually has nothing to do with traditional OTL beyond similar acronym. Traditional OTL paralleled numerous tubes to reduce output impedance. ZOTL uses 4 output tubes for 90 watts and performs its magic completely differently.

So, prejudge based on anonymous IMHO's

or listen for yourself

http://milbert.com/show/201206NYAmpShow

GAGA, whose underlying tech is particularly well regarded for superior bass amplification using tubes, was also recently used on entire Blues Gypsys album, with none of the "tone and behaviour ... constantly changing, rendering it utterly useless in recording." LOL