guitar tube amp as home stereo

Status
Not open for further replies.
elementx said:
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?


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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.