Learnt a thing or two about me rig today...

[KH Guitar Freak]

Well, I've got my quads of Winged C 6L6s in a few days ago. Installed a set of quads, but only managed to test them out and A/B them to the stock Mesa STR 440 valves. Based on what I've gathered from my experience, the Winged C sure sound cleaner and has more headroom as well over the stock valves. On the other hand, I've found the stock valves are still pretty good. The stock ones sure compress and distort at higher volumes than the Winged Cs. Personally, I don't see how some people claim them Winged Cs are shitloads better than the stock Mesa valves, but that's just me...

Another interesting thing I've found out today was when my uncle brought along a power conditioner unit and an expensive extension socket cord unit (he's a sick hifi guy). When I powered up my rig thru it, the tone was bigger, warmer, and even clearer than when plug straight into the power socket. Not that latter was bad, the rig still sounded good, but the former sounded even better...

Looks like I'll have to spend more cash on a power conditioner unit and an expensive extension socket cord unit then... :lol:

 

[ryjan]

A furman conditioner is next on my list of things I cant afford. Doeas anyone know if there is any tone difference between the $50 conditioner vs the higher end ones? I'll only be plugging in my Mark IV and 1 effects processor and I dont need the bells and whistles.

 

[echoes420]

The $50 Furman is nothing more than a normal power strip in rack form. Not saying that their high dollar ones suck, but don't waste your money on the cheap one.

I spent around $150 for my Monster Power conditioner... and I will never use an amp without it!

 

[ryjan]

Right on. So which one will actually filter the voltage instead of just adding an rfi shield?