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Re: Fuzzy EL34? - Q

Posted by Mark D. (A) on February 22, 2005 at 10:07:49

In Reply to: Fuzzy EL34? - Q posted by WayneV on February 21, 2005 at 14:17:19:

Posted by WayneV (A) on February 21, 2005 at 14:17:19
In Reply to: why poeple alway talking about dynaco ST-70 ? posted by lovetube on February 2, 2005 at 23:38:39:

Yep - Funny I just started mine up yesterday - warm and fuzzy tone and highly enjoyable too. But the fuzzy IMO has to go.
I was wondering if the warm and fuzzy is due to the EL34 or the amp design or both?

Has anyone heard the EL34 in a high priced amp, how did it sound?

/w
Well, I can tell you it isn't the fact that the tubes are EL34's. It might be THOSE EL34's, or it might be the amp design, or there might be a problem in the amp, but EL34's are generally not fuzzy.
I had an ST-70 for a few days a long time ago. Back in the '60s. I didn't like it at all and returned it. So, maybe it's the amp.
My own EL34 amps are not high priced amps. They are vintage. The difference is that they are NOT ST-70s.

While I'm busy typing, another responder to this thread made a comment about tube amps don't do bass. For that you need solid state. So, when I got home last night I decided to put that to the test. I fired up the ol' hi-fi and warmed it up with something or other. Then I put in a CD with tunes that I know have lots of good clear bass. I cranked 'er up to about a cruise power setting, and I could feel the bass drum beating air against me, fifteen feet away from the speakers. So, then I went up to take-off power, and the wife's pretty sxit that sits on shelves on the walls started dancing around in circles. Then I moved it up into "war emergency" and the stuff all danced right off the shelves onto the floor. The walls were vibrating. I went outside and I could feel it in the siding on the house. The music was still crystal clear and clean. No bass? Weak bass? I guess it's all in what you want for bass.
Last night was a show of EL34's at their finest. Now I remember why I use tubes.
Mark D.

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