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In Reply to: Re: SET Power Tubes and Music Preferences posted by Todd Krieger on August 9, 2005 at 21:01:51:
I cannot deny that I also favor the 45 tube. It seems to proportion the sound, in other words, put the proper weight to the lead instruments, as well as can be done. Probably another way to say this is that it is almost perfect in the midrange.The lead guitar, or voice, or a trumpet or sax solo sounds almost perfectly weighted among the instruments and music. Just the way you would want it to be
I have limited electricity in my house right now. I basically have been playing just one 45 amp. I fired up a 300b for the first time yesterday and I was a bit stunned at the harmonics. I was playing an Anour Brahem cd, kind of a new age/acoustic, with radian drivers, and each note seemed to linger in the air. Nuance and decay was remarkable.
A 300b doesn't quite proportion the sound the way a 45 does. But it is also quite remarkable. The proportion of sound is just more widely dispersed, less midrange focus, and it seems to offer more harmonics.
It takes the 45 for comparison maybe to be less inclined to the 300b. But it really takes a good 45. Previous to my friend building them, I had some diy's at my desktop that I couldn't keep there for over a half hour. They were off in some way, and I basically keep a 300b in this nearfield.
Plus the 45 being more of an upfront sound doesn't allow for a certain type of immersion in the sound like an aural matrix effect as the 300b. Similarly, full-range drivers also being more upfront, don't allow the listener to fall into the sound and speakers the way some 2-3 way speakers do.
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