Hi. I have a Dual recto with the serial 127. The previous owner got it modded from 110 to 230V (that we have here in sweden) by an old electronics-dude that i think rewound the original transformers. It's been working great.
Anyway i love this amp to death. I've been keeping it several times when i really should've sold it to afford to eat!
Anyways it's been getting noisier and hummier lately. The hum seems to be "in tune" with the slight hum that i can hear the transformer to the right (from the back) make if i put my ear near it. It makes me wonder a little if the previous owner got a good job done, or if it's just amplified by bad power tubes. What do you think?
The noise is kind of a white preamp noise, and i've been switching the preamp tubes around a little without better results. I'm the kind of guy that only get new tubes when something is really wrong. If it aint broke.... Lately my playing has improved a lot and i want to nail a great tone that i can live with and i'm thinking of a full JJ retube hi-gain kit with the kt66's and kt88's. Any users here that have experience from that kit in a recto that old? I play thru a Marshall cab with greenbacks so anything too brittle would be superbrittle in my setup.
Thanks in advance
//Mattias Johansson, Sweden
Anyway i love this amp to death. I've been keeping it several times when i really should've sold it to afford to eat!
Anyways it's been getting noisier and hummier lately. The hum seems to be "in tune" with the slight hum that i can hear the transformer to the right (from the back) make if i put my ear near it. It makes me wonder a little if the previous owner got a good job done, or if it's just amplified by bad power tubes. What do you think?
The noise is kind of a white preamp noise, and i've been switching the preamp tubes around a little without better results. I'm the kind of guy that only get new tubes when something is really wrong. If it aint broke.... Lately my playing has improved a lot and i want to nail a great tone that i can live with and i'm thinking of a full JJ retube hi-gain kit with the kt66's and kt88's. Any users here that have experience from that kit in a recto that old? I play thru a Marshall cab with greenbacks so anything too brittle would be superbrittle in my setup.
Thanks in advance
//Mattias Johansson, Sweden