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24th October 2005, 03:01 PM
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guitar tube amp as home stereo
I am building a clone of the Fender Princeton guitar amp. I was just wondering if it would be suitable for listening to recorded audio with, or will it not be "tuned" for that?
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24th October 2005, 03:45 PM
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Guitar amps do often have OPTs that rolls off higher in frequency than normal stereo equipment. And more important: the usual tone controls of these amps are not very suitable for Hi-Fi...
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24th October 2005, 04:08 PM
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Re: guitar tube amp as home stereo
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Whew... no man. They are great sounding little guitar amps, but the freq response on those is purposely limites to 150Hz - 15kHz, with lots of purposefill non linear stages and midrange coloration. On the other hand, slap a TMB guitar tone stack on a hi-fi amp...like an old Citation for example... and you can get some great sparkly clean tones.
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25th October 2005, 04:15 AM
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Remember that a stereo is there to REproduce sound, while a guitar amp is there to PROduce sound. The guitar amp is part of the instrument, that is why you select an Fender or a MArshall or whatever depending on the tone you want. It is anything but flat.
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25th October 2005, 04:25 PM
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Seriously though, 1 channel A dynaco St-70 is not too much more involved than a Princeton, and they don't sound too bad for clean guitar or as a monoblock... nice and warm.
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25th October 2005, 04:29 PM
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Guitar amps are built for some distortion & limited frequency response. Home entertainment amps are built to accurately reproduce the audio recording with full frequency response & low distortion. Just are two different animals.
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