PCB amps vs. PTP hand wired?

[Gearjoneser]

Re: PCB amps vs. PTP hand wired?

I tend to agree with Kevlar. P to P amps have a pure sound, but many PCB amps can sound just as good, if not better. It's all about the design, not the construction method. The best amps I've ever heard were PCB, like the Bogner, THD, and Budda.
They took the ideology of P to P, but designed it in a way that sounds superior to all other amp designs. Gotta give'em credit for that!

 

[Scott_F]

Re: PCB amps vs. PTP hand wired?

Take a look inside a Blues Junior some time. Then take a look inside a Rivera Knucklehead 55. One uses cheap, flimsy, crap-for-parts, the other uses a heavy thick circuit board with reasonable distances between the tracings and high quality parts. Neither one is PTP, but they are night and day apart in quality. Funny thing is you can get a used KH55 for just about the price of a new Blues Junior.

In the amps that I've built and the one that I blackfaced, I have had a lot of fun learning and doing. If one of my amps should break, I'll figure out what is broken.

Tonight I wanted to take my 5F4 Tweed Super that was set up for a 4 ohm output and switch it over to a Tweed Pro, but the Pro is set up for an 8 ohm speaker. I had to go in and swap out the Negative Feedback Resistor. It took all of about 10 minutes and the first 6 were letting my soldering iron warm up.

I wish everyone had the chance to build their own little Tweed Deluxe or Champ.