Very true, however we were asked what we thought and in the spirit of honest and well intentioned feedback many of us said what we thought
ie. great ... some new Croft amps ... shame about the dual mono still
Yes we did ask for feedback and do appreciate the feedback that has been given.
However, Glenn has been building amps for twenty years, he knows what he wants to build for the next few years and he knows what he wants to leave behind in the past.
Take a look at this page
http://www.6moons.com/audioreviews/croft/croft.html . On it you will see equipment from the EA era priced from £1000 for the Croft GCi all the way to £10,000 for the Absolut1 and the Sytegra S Integrated cost a whopping 9000 euros.
On this page you can see dual mono's, single pots and remote control single pots. Glenn is well aquainted with all the technologies available and does not need to be told how to suck eggs.
Simply put he hated producing 80% of the equipment on that page, most of it is compromised, overpriced, overspecified and overhyped. Glenn was not motivated by the money and did not enjoy compromising designs for the sake of commercialism (driven mostly by Amar's greed). He doesn't believe in spending excess money on fancy casework (E.g the cost of the Absolut1 case alone was nearly £300). Not being true to our beliefs is bad for us all.
So now Glenn has broken away from EA he wants to do it his way and is aspiring to the days of the Micro when he was happiest building amplifiers, producing large numbers of a commercially reachable product which became an icon.
Thats the ethos "reliable affordable and reachable" and we want you on board. But also pls respect Glenn's wishes to do it his way. His main reasons for dual mono are two fold.
1) Electrical advantages due to some separation of the left and right channels.
2) Ability to compensate for room interactions due to room shape, furnishing, materials or any of a myriad of other factors.
The second factor is of more significance and is the reason for no mechanical joining of the two separate pots via belt or any other means.
Regards, Matt.