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Post subject: Re: Used (23-year-old) Tube Amp Advice
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 10:43 pm
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oops. damn 4 is too close to the 3.. lol :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: guess thats what fat fingers and 1:30 am add up to.. :)


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Post subject: Re: Used (23-year-old) Tube Amp Advice
Posted: Wed Aug 14, 2013 11:34 pm
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Sure an old amp will sound just fine, even amps with the original tubes from the 1960s in are capable of making a good sound.

What people don't often realise though is how much better that amp would sound with a cleanup, a new set of tubes and a rebias and maybe a cap job. Good tubes don't fail catastrophically all that often, they just gradually soften and drift and the change is so slow that you don't notice it until you treat the amp to a new set, then you wonder why you didn't do it sooner.

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