In Reply to: RE: Have you had a chance to compare... posted by RGA on April 23, 2012 at 07:50:10:
Boy, that is not my experience at all.
My experience is that the EL34 has a nice mid-range, bloated bass and the treble has a towel thrown over it (Rogue Atlas and Quick Silver Mini-mites).
My experience with KT88/6550 tubes in my mini-mites and a custom class A PP triode is that they have a rich, powerful mid-range sound that is exquisite for listening to Peter Gilmore play the guitar; have proper highs, much better than the EL34, and really excell in the bass. (I use GE 6550 and the Chinese GEKT88 tubes, the latter of which is a copy of the GEC hard plates and is bargain tube with great sound).
Of course we don't all hear or prefer the same sounds in the same way, but I wouldn't give up on the KT88, before trying some other amps. They also make a nice sound in SE mode, if you have ever listened to the old AN Kit 1.
As I mentioned above, Don Garber's 2A3 and 300B amps represent a much lower cost bargain to great sound than AN. But he doesn't make an integrated (yet) and the wait is over a year! Read the Jeff Day reviews of these in 6M. I think Art Dudley may also have reviewed the 300b monos a while back.
Good luck.
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