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Originally posted by carlygtr56 Fidget, I own 80 pedals...I collect those as well. No Bad Monkey. Why? Because I got better and I think it's a cheap piece of junk...... Have you ever turned all 80 on at once:thu:

Originally posted by DirtyChains Yeah, some of them look real purdy. I will take a nice thick well designed PCB board over PTP wiring anyday. I cannot tell you the countless hours I used to spend at work finding wires that were almost or broken inside the insulation, cold solder joints done poorly, and cracked solder joints. When this stuff happens heat often builds up or an arch happens and it takes out other parts with it. You are not looking at the inside of an amp when you are playing it and the {censored}ing tone is in most peoples head, all things being equal. If you took the same PTP wired amp and put the same components on a well designed board you could not hear the difference if you tried. Wire does not make an amp sound better folks. Disagree if you want, but my past history of medical equipment repair tells me different. We are talking life saving equipment here. I will take my Bogner, Mesa, and VHT amps over any PTP amp as long as the tone is what I want. If an amp had the tone I was looking for I would over look the PTP wiring and buy it, but I would expect more problems with the PTP amp. It takes just as much R&D, if not more, to design a proper PCB based amp too. To each his own. Tone and long term durability are the 2 main factors most people look for in an amp. A recent amp here on HCAF had the durability part in question along with lies to customers. I will admit only time will tell if the board amps will stand up to 40 years of use like many classic PTP amps. 20 years have passed since true quality board amps have been around and they are holding up great. I expect them to last just as long, if not longer than any PTP amp. If you are trying to say it is easier to debug a PCB, then you are insane.

Originally posted by D/FW XJ'er = teh lose. 100 watt tube amps weren't meant to be played at bedroom levels. But keep wanking away. They do just fine in Bedrooms. If your can't here a tone difference between an 18 watt and a 100 watt amp at the same volume then there is a problem. personally I like thedynamics, headroom and clarity that is much easier to get with a high wattage amp.