Recent content by Elbowselbows

How much for just the 5150 head?

The best tube change I found was the JJ ECC83 in v1 and v2 and a balanced JJ ECC803 in the PI. Sooooooo much smoother, no ice picky upper mids, you can run the treble and presence up a lot more and the middle still have a growlly full bite. As a secondary change, the 6ca7 's are a great power...

K, rad , thanks I'll change out the odd looking rec tubes and hopefully the solder for the diodes holds everything together.

K, thanks, The rectifier tubes still work ok if the amp is pushed, high volume or bold setting. Maybe there is still enough vacuum in the tubes to enable them to work sometimes but are on the way out. The darkening on the power tubes I'm seeing is very different from the black/silver on the...

Looks spiffy!!!! Congrats!!! It's nice that it came with at pre amp tube setup and you didn't have to waste time and money trying everything else out. Should sound killer!! Good call on the 6ca7's too, !!

I have a Stiletto trident stage 2 , recently while playing a gig the head cut out, went silent, couldn't get it going again. After taking it to the shop we found that one of the recifier diodes had heated up? Rattled ? And fallen out and a second one had come loose at one end and then re...

Stiletto Trident Stage 2 V1 jj ecc83 V2 rtf 12ax7 V2 jj ecc83 V4 Chinese 9th gen V5 jj 803 balanced Ruby el34bstr power Really like the Jj's with the stiletto. Tried the tung-sols but sound too ice-picky and harsh for higher gain rhythm , like the stock EH do.

I noticed that you posted a topic about you're rec tube being bad in your new stiletto in 2008! Haha . I going to send and email of to them just to see if I could get one , my amp is older then the 6 month warrenty, but I didn't know about the problem till now.

Got the jj ecc83 's and the ecc803 for the PI, it sounds soooo think! Alot darker, in tube rec, spongy I like the presence and treble at noon on ch2, I might even like the Jj's more then the NOS RFT'S ..... Jj sound good to me in this stiletto.

So I guess I've had a bad rectifier tube in the 50 watt setting since I got the head. When set up to tube rec at 50 watt spongy there was volume problems and has gotten worse over time until now when I was able to hear crossover distortion and noticed the glass hasen't burned in the same as...

I use mine for hardcore and metal and punk. Always on ch2 it has tonnes of different tones, inspiring, keeps me playing for hours.

That's great to hear!!! Since buying my stiletto I've come back to it three times, from a peavey triple x, a recto and a jcm800. The peavey most resently, trying to sell that off now.

Got some for my stage 2 trident , can't wait to push them and see how it goes!

Got some for my stage 2 trident , can't wait to push them and see how it goes!

It's gone now