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In Reply to: Read the EL34 reviews at posted by nightdoggy on April 23, 2007 at 05:13:51:
Although it's doubtful that guitar players are any more or any less biased than audiophiles, common sense would say that tubes play a different role in guitar amps than they do in audio amps. Case in point - based on the high ratings that guitar players give current production JJ 6922's I purchased a pair for my preamp, and although the JJ's do sound pretty good, ultimately the JJ's are a bit rolled off in the highs, and they also hiss unacceptably for preamp use. Now seeing as the vast majority of tubed guitar amps don't use tweeters but instead use large drivers (speakers) for their sound output, do you think guitar players are going to notice if a tube is rolled off in the highs? Or even care if it is? And seeing as tubed guitar amps hiss and hum and are by their very nature noisy, do you think that guitar players are going to notice how quiet a particular brand of tube is or isn't, especially when running their amps into distortion at volume ten? I think not.A guitar player's evaluation of a tube can certainly be helpful and have some merit, but because guitar and audio amps are such different animals, for audio use I would give much more weight to an audiophile's opinion of a particular tube than I would a guitar player's.
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