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Valve amps from 1950-60

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bear:
Have one of these I restord with modern rectfier and new capacitors. https://www.radiomuseum.org/r/philips_el6411_el_6411.html and this I am trying to restore https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10214514738242132.1073741828.1230635353&type=1&l=4fceff077d

Any one here on the forum with knowledge about valve amps. ?

Clock'd 0Ne:
I know nothing of the workings of them, only that you supposedly get a rich analogue sound from them. I'd love to try one some day.

bear:
Yeah it is for my, kid he plays on an old Hagström guitar from 65 :) Fixed a tube Marshal(well solid state + tubes in preamp) from 95 a JTM 30, put in a fan and replaced a few more components.

Serious:

--- Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 07, 2018, 12:26:50 PM ---I know nothing of the workings of them, only that you supposedly get a rich analogue sound from them. I'd love to try one some day.

--- End quote ---

Then I am very suspicious of all the hype surrounding valves, the reason technology moved away from them was they are big, costly and inefficient. The sound might be pleasing but is it more accurate? The argument sounds very much like the £5000 per metre zero oxygen copper cable is better that £5 per metre copper cable. Then in most cases people are pumping a digital signal through valves.

I'm not arguing that you shouldn't use one with a genuine1960s guitar, they were made for each other and give a distinctive sound.

bear:
A valve sound is not more accurat but warmer, digital is samples/time but analouge does not omit any and if it cannot handle a sound it does clip but gets distorted.

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