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The Chinese Vox amps use a fairly brittle lead-free solder, just a heads up for long term durability. If it's just going to stay at home I'd not worry about it though.
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I think the Vietnamese did wire these HW Voxes much better... if you are in that style of amp.. Anything these days (after 2008) is ... you know it bean counters - inferior wood, low quality frets, all components, everything I´ve bought two Marshall handwired replicas .. the worst mistake in my life poor quality trannies.. OT on one went south and the PT on the other one is noisy as hell... Do not buy any of this new stuff, wherever it was made.. China or England.. the same ripoff.. the same pattern Last edited by Acousticado; 09-08-2021 at 05:52 PM. Reason: Inappropriate language |
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Hand Wired Nostalgia
BTW, at 64 I remember plenty of transformer failures in my youth. In particular a Fender Deluxe Reverb and an Ampeg B25 come to mind as particularly poorly timed failures. My prejudice as an EE with manufacturing experience is no one ever wants anything to fail if they can avoid it. It is such a hassle and drag on any business. My guess is transformers today are like they've always been...heavy and more reliable than capacitors.
The tin-silver solder that must be used today, instead of tin-lead, is relatively brittle and I think not a great choice for the large joints of hand wiring. But I would take new tin-silver over 50 year old tin-lead. I've not been asked to repair a tube amp in quite a while, but back in the 80s it was my standard procedure to reflow every joint on a Fender eyelet board before putting any real effort into repair (excepting the obvious power supply failure modes). And that usually nailed it. One item that seems much better today are basic speaker drivers. Rubbing voice coils were outrageously common in my youth and I've only encountered one in the last decades. I think with everything I've experienced I like the Hot Rod Deluxe for cost effective, reliable, modern construction. Tube sockets are on a PCB. POTs are nutted down (missing from the Blues Jr) and also PCB mounted. Largely ribbon cables running inside holding down the mess. Not too hard to replace a POT and no chaotic mess of hand wiring. If you want to see a worst case example of hand wiring take a look inside any of the silver face Twin Reverb Master Volume amps.
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And yes Silverface Fenders, some of those were attrocious! I pass on ribbon cables, and PCB mounted tube sockets, jacks, and pots though. My Fender Blues Deluxe, and earlier Super 60 used all of those techniques, and they were hands down the most problematic amps I've ever owned with most of those problems being attributed to those PCB mounted components! |
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What do you think about guitars and amps that are made in China? |
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They make some so-so preamp tubes, Ruby/Shuguang ..
Other than that, I wouldnt touch any guitar/amp from China with a 10ft pole |
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When designers account for those issues, PCB amps can be great.
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For my difficulties with my first-ordered and returned Fender '59 Bassman LTD, Fender sent me a FENDERŽ CAMO COACHES JACKET valued at $60. Another shout-out to Brett Arney who was right on top of my concern!
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Hey SpruceTop, I thought you were older!
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Well, ah, let me say this about that ... I'm young at heart!
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