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From: BluesGe~ol.com
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 05:52:22 EDT
Subject: 4/10 side-by-side test

Today, I set up four different 4/10 bassman amps (Fender RI with Sovteks,
Fender RI with Groove Tubes 6L6s and a NOS rectifier, A Hoffmaned Fender RI
with all NOS tubes, and a Victoria with a variety of NOS and Sovteks) and and
did side-by-side comparison. All rectifiers were 5AR4s.

I swapped out tube sets throughout the amps.

My conclusions can be summarized by looking at them on a scale of 1-10.

If the Victoria sound is a 10. The Hoffman is a 9.5, the Fender with Groove
Tubes is a 9, and the Fender with Sovteks is an 8. It was that close. It was
even closer when I dialed in each amps tone and presence pots to try to get
the sounds to match. Once I had done this, the test players were not able to
correctly, consistently guess which amp they were playing through.

I had my guitarist friend doing some of the playing and he is cancelling his
Victoria order tomorrow, and keeping his Fender. And I am not putting in the
Hoffman board. Money saved all around.

Now, if I had lots of disposable funds, and wanted that little extra edge,
I'd consider the Victoria. Of course I haven't played the Sonny Jr. yet.
Trying to set that up for this week.

Tubes, tubes, tubes. It seemed to make most of the difference in my tests.

I might also mention that the Victoria had a 5751 in for the middle preamp
tube.

Here's a little tidbit. A friend of mine told me that Mark Baer from Victoria
that the speakers in the Fender RI are the same as Mojotones, just different
paint.

- -dave therault