Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2021 0:00:30 GMT
I happened to see this when I was perusing an email from the company I recently bought some cables from. It was the first time I was aware that the company sold musical gear so I was interested. To be honest, I'm not in the market for another amp and I'm not thinking of buying it, but I was intrigued because it seems to be in the same general class as the Fender Champ. This amp's a single-ended 5 watt tube amp with a 12AX7 and a 6V6GT, and an 8" Celestion speaker. From reading customer reviews, comments indicate that the amp's clean at low volume, but tends to get overdriven when it's dimed, and a common reaction is that it runs out of headroom very abruptly. What puzzles me is one owner's remark that if you substitute a 5751 for the 12AX7 preamp tube, that headroom improves dramatically. I understand that a 5751 is a lower gain preamp tube, so it stands to reason that when the amp's turned up, it'll sound cleaner than it did when being driven harder by a 12AX7. What I'm puzzled about is the comment that clean headroom improves dramatically with a lower gain preamp tube. Am I missing something here? My thoughts are that the amp might be cleaner but lower in volume when it's dimed with a low gain preamp tube, but I'm having trouble with the idea that somehow dynamic range is extended by it.
Regardless of that, this seems like it would be a cool little bedroom amp for a couple of hundred bucks. It has a 1 watt/5 watt switch and the 8" Celestion is said to be quite smooth after the initial break-in period.
