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Post subject: Precision Amp' Head Question
Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2011 10:45 am
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I had the pleasure of playing my Precision through an Ampeg Heritage SVT-CL for a while.

Apart from giving me enduring tinnitus when played only at room-practising level, developing a problem with the tubes and weighing more than my girlfriend, the sound it produced (through my sealed NV412) was simply astonishing.

The only way I can describe it is 'musical'. The notes were sharp, vibrant, crystal-clear, 'bell-like' and harmonious: in a nutshell, it sounded simply beautiful and MUSICAL.

By musical, I mean it sounded gorgeous to my ear at relatively low volumes: each of the notes had an inherent musical quality which my ears registered as 'gorgeous'.

No matter what, neither my Littlemark (with or without a Sansamp BDD) nor a Streamliner 900 can produce notes which sound anything close to those from the all-valve head: as nice as both of those amps are, the notes are simply in an entirely different league in terms of 'musical beauty' to my ear. Although difficult to put into words, they sound- by comparison- dull, lifeless, one-dimensional and artificial.

My question here is four-fold really:-

Is what I'm describing the inherent difference between all-valve heads and SS/Hybrid amps?

Why did the Ampeg sound so 'musical'?

Do all all-tube heads (eg. the Hiwatts) sound so musical?

Is it possible to get this 'musicality' from a SS/Hybrid head?

Thanks everyone.


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