Surfcaster
Well-known member
Lots of you who have switched to non-Mesa tubes have posted that doing so improved the tone of your amps.
My question is this...how much difference are we talking here? Are we talking a blatantly obvious difference that slaps you in the face as soon as you strike the first chord. And if so, are you still noticing and enjoying the difference months/years down the road, or was it really all in your head and after a while you realized it's really not that much different at all (I've heard people on other forums report this kind of thing)
Or is the difference very subtle...the kind of thing you can only really tell if you do an A/B comparison.
The reason I ask is if the difference is pretty obvious and noticeable, I may consider buying a full replacement set for my F50 through Eurotubes, but if the difference is only very subtle, I'll wait another 3 years until my warranty period is over before I play around with those kinds of changes.
The other reason I ask is because I owned an Ampeg Reverberocket a few years ago and I switched the power tubes between Svetlanas and Electro Harmonix a couple times and I switched pre-amp tubes between Sovtek and Electro Harmonix once, and to be honest, I did not notice any difference in doing so...if it was different, the only way to tell would be to do an A/B comparison, which I didn't do.
Thanks!
My question is this...how much difference are we talking here? Are we talking a blatantly obvious difference that slaps you in the face as soon as you strike the first chord. And if so, are you still noticing and enjoying the difference months/years down the road, or was it really all in your head and after a while you realized it's really not that much different at all (I've heard people on other forums report this kind of thing)
Or is the difference very subtle...the kind of thing you can only really tell if you do an A/B comparison.
The reason I ask is if the difference is pretty obvious and noticeable, I may consider buying a full replacement set for my F50 through Eurotubes, but if the difference is only very subtle, I'll wait another 3 years until my warranty period is over before I play around with those kinds of changes.
The other reason I ask is because I owned an Ampeg Reverberocket a few years ago and I switched the power tubes between Svetlanas and Electro Harmonix a couple times and I switched pre-amp tubes between Sovtek and Electro Harmonix once, and to be honest, I did not notice any difference in doing so...if it was different, the only way to tell would be to do an A/B comparison, which I didn't do.
Thanks!