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Re: Current production EL34s...again

12/27/2003 2:09 AM
George	Re: Current production EL34s...again I found the svets too clean and almost fender like. Compared to the double getter 34LS i used to use before they stopped making them, the svets sounded lousy to my ear. In fact, tho just my opinion, they sounded bad compared to most any 34 i've used. Maybe it's just me, but in any case, the last 34's i bought before i sold my marshall were EH and they sounded quite good. Not as good as the old LS, but close. I guess it depends on what you want from a 34. But if you want that squishy compressed and fat 34 tone, the svets didn't do that at all to my ear, and i think the EH are the way to go for that tone as far as current production.(assuming they are still the same as they were when i bought mine a couple years ago) They sounded almost like a 5881 to me. Please don't flame me, i'm just telling it as my ears heard it.

12/27/2003 2:09 AM

George

Re: Current production EL34s...again

I found the svets too clean and almost fender like. Compared to the double getter 34LS i used to use before they stopped making them, the svets sounded lousy to my ear. In fact, tho just my opinion, they sounded bad compared to most any 34 i've used. Maybe it's just me, but in any case, the last 34's i bought before i sold my marshall were EH and they sounded quite good. Not as good as the old LS, but close.

I guess it depends on what you want from a 34. But if you want that squishy compressed and fat 34 tone, the svets didn't do that at all to my ear, and i think the EH are the way to go for that tone as far as current production.(assuming they are still the same as they were when i bought mine a couple years ago) They sounded almost like a 5881 to me.

Please don't flame me, i'm just telling it as my ears heard it.