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Egnater / Randall Modular Amps
Is there a Randall MTS / Egnater exodus ocurring???
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<blockquote data-quote="Julia" data-source="post: 65867" data-attributes="member: 1784"><p>I personally found out why people own two Marshall amps.... because one is always in the shop. </p><p></p><p>I personally found out that tubes suck. They're unreliable. It just depends upon how lucky you are. Don't try to tell me otherwise. I went through 9 quads in a year and have gone through several preamp tubes that were less than two years old (hello microphonics). NOS in most cases isn't worth the price either because they can fail just as easily. Tube stuff is heavy as hell. Tube amps are expensive to maintain. These are reasons we've pretty much abandoned tube technology in 99% of applications.</p><p></p><p>I'm on my longest lasting quad right now -- 8 months. They're Ruby 6550s. I think the only reason that they're still working is that I've got three backup quads. I prefer EL34s tonally but they just don't last.</p><p></p><p>I've also learned that if enough tubes fry in an amp eventually something somewhere else fries.</p><p>There also are posts on this board where the tube fuse blew (indicating a bad tube) and the person just replaced the fuse several times without changing the tube. Then something went wrong with the amp. And a bad review gets written up. If the tube fuse blows, replace the fuse AND the tube. How hard can it be?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Julia, post: 65867, member: 1784"] I personally found out why people own two Marshall amps.... because one is always in the shop. I personally found out that tubes suck. They're unreliable. It just depends upon how lucky you are. Don't try to tell me otherwise. I went through 9 quads in a year and have gone through several preamp tubes that were less than two years old (hello microphonics). NOS in most cases isn't worth the price either because they can fail just as easily. Tube stuff is heavy as hell. Tube amps are expensive to maintain. These are reasons we've pretty much abandoned tube technology in 99% of applications. I'm on my longest lasting quad right now -- 8 months. They're Ruby 6550s. I think the only reason that they're still working is that I've got three backup quads. I prefer EL34s tonally but they just don't last. I've also learned that if enough tubes fry in an amp eventually something somewhere else fries. There also are posts on this board where the tube fuse blew (indicating a bad tube) and the person just replaced the fuse several times without changing the tube. Then something went wrong with the amp. And a bad review gets written up. If the tube fuse blows, replace the fuse AND the tube. How hard can it be? [/QUOTE]
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Is there a Randall MTS / Egnater exodus ocurring???
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