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There’s a pattern I’ve definitely seen with other gear where many are still hanging around for top dollar like the pandemic never ended.
Plexi and 800 flavours would be excellent.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
that said your current set up sounds pretty great already!
Totally silent.
Wonderful amps, especially at home imho.
I still love mine TMDR - one of the best bits of gear I ever bought. TMPR not far behind
But These things are so light I could pop the Celestion A Type in from my Hot Rod and not notice too much weight gain?
Still, good bargains for quite a few people.
The Celestion Neo in the blonde is 1.9kg, and the Jensen Neo in the black one is 2kg. The A-Type is 3.5kg, so you're adding 1.5kg to the total to get to ~12kg. Still a very lightweight amp.
Having played a lot of the lightweight stuff now you do lose something when you lose the weight, the St James is a good example of this.
I don’t disagree with this, but I also think it’s the wrong way to approach the amp. The marketing doesn’t help with that I do agree. But sounds like should be just taken as ballpark. You’ll find no shortage of mods for a DR and speaker swaps etc when it comes to the valve version - so becomes which DR is it supposed to sound the same as.
Yep seems fine to. Although bear in mind the line out cab sims will only ever be what’s on the firmware if that’s important to you (you can put black or blond on either to experience that speaker on the line out)
It's not just that though, a decent quality all valve amp not only just has a different type of sound to a solid state amp, or any kind of modelling amp, but they also feel different to play and respond differently to how hard or soft you play and all that. I'm not saying they're not perfectly good amps, they are, but the sound and feel of the full thing is very difficult to replicate 100%.
As soon as the attenuator is clicked back though, the gap significantly narrows and everything is that bit stiffer.
I suspect if I was starting from wanting the best gigging amp for me and then making it usable at home it would be a different equation to that where the primary goal is a good tone at home without pissing my neighbours off.
I use a Friedman Small Box and before that I had a BE50, before that a Carol Ann Tucana 3. I've tried all manner of modern lightweight amps to try and get a lightweight solution that's comparable to a great valve amp but I just can't do it because I hear a huge difference when playing live. When they catch up I'll be the first to adopt it, until then I'll keep spending money hoping it has lol!