FUCHSAUDIO wrote:I don't doubt Max, he's gotten his hands into many Dumbles over the years.
Andy, you are right, I had the luck to put my guitar cable (not my hands
) into around thirty of them from '79 up to now and this was (and still is) always lots of fun. And sometimes I even had the opportunity to ask the one who did service these amps some questions concerning their more general technical specs.
But I'm no tech and I don't have much knowledge in regard to how a tube amp precisely works and can't even "read" a schematic - at least if "reading" shall mean more than just being able to "read" the value of the treble pot and the treble capacitor.
And in addition some of these amps did cross my way already thirty or twenty years ago. And our brain seems to have a tendency to fill up what we forget with fairy tales. Furthermore even 30 amps, what may seem to be "many" are probably less than 10% of all the amps Alexander did built until today - IMO a rather small database, especially taking into account that these are custom made amps that all differ here and there, even those built around the same time.
So seperating the hard facts from the fairy tales is indeed very important, as Mark points out, because IMO science should never be based on blind trust in some "authorities" telling others "the truth" ("the truth": IMO a rather futile concept anyway).
So IMO doubts are a most important fuel of any progress (not only) in understanding the technological, physiological and psychological reasons that are responsable for the fact, that a certain amp triggers the "hey, this one sounds exactly like the Texas Flood Dumbleland" perception pattern in the brain of a player and/or listener and another amp doesn't.
Cheers,
Max