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03-24-2011, 09:40 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Seattle | | | Best All Tube Amp Head WITHOUT A Fan
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Would love to have a list of the best All tube amp heads without fans. Vintage and newer.
This is for those of us who want to enjoy that great tube sound at lower volumes in our living rooms or quite venues.
I had been jonesing for a Ampeg V4 and just got to try one in a store here but the fan noise rules it out.
Thanks in advance for contributing to the list.
For starters, I just tried the:
EBS Classic T90 All Tube Bass Head at Bass NW.
VERY nice head. Full tube sound but fairly un-colored. |
03-24-2011, 10:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: North Carolina | | | My Ampeg V4 doesn't have a Fan.
Neither does my Superbass.
Nor my Univox 50w project i am slowly working on..
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03-24-2011, 10:13 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Brooklyn Park, MN. | | | It would be easer to ask "What all tube amps have a fan"
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03-24-2011, 10:26 PM
| | Blazin' Acadian | | Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Ontario,705 | | | Traynor yba 1 has no fan,great amp! |
03-24-2011, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Back in MI | | | SUNN Spectrum II?
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03-24-2011, 10:32 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2009 Location: Perth, Western Australia | | That would be my Ampeg after the fan broke and before I replaced it  |
03-24-2011, 10:36 PM
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03-24-2011, 10:41 PM
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Sponsored Artist: Free Idea Clothing | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Athol, MA | | | The older V4s don't have fans. You could try finding one of those. I love mine to death. |
03-24-2011, 10:44 PM
|  | The Lowdown Diggler | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Huntington Beach, CA | | | I recently picked up an SWR Redface 350 that has a switch to turn the fan on/off. I like this feature. |
03-24-2011, 11:23 PM
|  | **** | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: west coast | | | Sunn 200S(little brother to the 2000S).
Rated at 60w, sounds MUCH bigger through the right cab.
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03-24-2011, 11:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Central CA Coast | | | I like my Fender Showman ('65) w/a 15" or 2-10" cabinet. Works well for URB or bass guitar. It's 85 watts so it's loud enough for a lot of different settings and has a nice warm low end that's good for a lot of different styles, though not first choice for metal or dub, obviously. |
03-24-2011, 11:34 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Phoenix. Az. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by jibreel  I had been jonesing for a Ampeg V4 and just got to try one in a store here but the fan noise rules it out. | Yeah like the others said, The Ampeg V4 and V4B never had fans. These models were only made in the 1970's.
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03-24-2011, 11:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Seattle | | Quote:
Originally Posted by anderbass Yeah like the others said, The Ampeg V4 and V4B never had fans. These models were only made in the 1970's. | Ahh....so someone modded the one I tried  |
03-25-2011, 12:12 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Finland (Northern Europe) | | Hi.
Regardless of whether the amp is SS or tube, a more silent (=expensive) fan or a variable speed controller for the existing one is IME way better option than limiting the selection by ruling the fan out alltogether.
Unless someone is dumb enough to design a tube amp that has the passive components enclosed above the tubes, tube amps equipped with regular MI tubes don't require any fans.
Virtually all of the rack units excluded of course (well my 100W 2003 rack-Marshall doesn't have a fan either).
In this particular case, if the amp in question was modded to have a fan, just un-mod it. If the tone of that amp pleases You that is .
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03-25-2011, 12:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Germany, EU | | No annoying fan in my '75 Fender Dual Showman, makes for an excellent bassment amp. 'spose will also work in living rooms 
Neither would there be one in a 100W Bassman from the same era.
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03-25-2011, 12:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Boulder Suburbia, Colorado | | | I don't remember my Bassman 135 having a fan and that thing was awesome. Still wish I had it, actually. |
03-25-2011, 12:55 AM
|  | Sponsored by Jagermeister | | Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Seattle / Tacoma | | The Mesa Boogie 400/400+ fan can be switched off. 
The Ampeg B-15 reissue I recently sold didn't have a fan, and yeah, great living room amp. |
03-25-2011, 02:02 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Germany | | | HIWATT amps don't have fans. Neither does the Marshall Super Bass. |
03-25-2011, 07:17 AM
|  | Supporting Member | | Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Houston,Tx | | | The Fender Bassman 300 Pro has no fan |
03-25-2011, 07:26 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Ottawa, Ont | | | b15n
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