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View Poll Results: What is your favorite Peavey Amp
Peavey XXL 0 0%
Peavey Valve King 1 7.14%
Peavey Classic 0 0%
Peavey 5150 4 28.57%
Peavey XXX 2 14.29%
Peavey TransTube 0 0%
Peavey JSX 3 21.43%
Peavey 6505+ 4 28.57%
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Default Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 10-26-2007, 02:04 PM

Not best, but your personal favorite. I'm going with XXX because of the Dark Compressed tone with killer lowend growl and the fact it's 3 channels.

Stock tubes in the XXX isn't that good. However, change out the preamps tubes, throw in a couple 12AT7s or 12DW7s in V1 and V2... and throw some JJ 6L6GCs in there.. and Voila. You have an unbeatable peavey amp. (also try some KT77s instead 6L6)

My second favorite Peavey is the 6505+. I love the tightness, versatility, and 3 channels.

Peavey is doing a great job making quality, good sounding amps. Why can't Mesa and Marshall sell so cheap?


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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 10-27-2007, 02:06 PM

Peavey JSX because it's so universal.
  
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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 10-31-2007, 03:32 AM

Peavey 5150 For the Win !
  
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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 11-02-2007, 04:43 AM

None of the above. My personal fave is the VTM 60.
  
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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 11-02-2007, 09:03 AM

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Peavey 5150 For the Win !
5150 are nice and tight. Probably PVs most all time popular amp.

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None of the above. My personal fave is the VTM 60.
Oh yes, the VTM60... that's another good one.


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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 01-19-2008, 10:50 PM

This btw my first post here, so im going with the 6505+. Great amp.
  
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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 01-19-2008, 11:05 PM

Welcome Rob. :wavey:

I couldn't agree more. 6505+ are a great sounding amp... and they are very versatile.


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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 02-03-2008, 09:01 AM

I myself have a Block 5150, and a Script 5150 heads. I really love them bastards. Looking for a combo now. Maybe a II/+ head but i am fine with the plain heads.

I have a XXX halfstack I bought recently. It's nice and versatile. But I am not pee-my-pants thrilled with it. I hope that the tubes and maybe the speakers are letting me down. So I am going to order some 6L6s and if I don't jive with them, they will be spares for the 5150s. And I'll try some EL34s. Since my singer has a JSX. And it sounds nice with EL34s.

I had a Valveking combo. It was nice. Definitely a great beginner tube amp. I have too many PV solid state amps, stored away. A couple of great cheesey 80's tube amp combos. One of them has a phaser built in. I know that.

I really love my PVs.

I vote 5150, though.
  
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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 02-03-2008, 09:33 AM

Damn Indy!!!

You're a peavey whore!!! I really like peavey, in fact the XXX is my top 5 favorite amp. You are right about the speakers and tubes though, out of the box the XXX isn't good at all.. they need some tweaking (and bias).

First things first.... change those V1 and V2 preamp tube!!! try to experiment with a 12DW7 or 12AT7 in V1 and V2. I liked the 12AT7 in the V2...

I like the amp with 6L6GC. It comes stock with WXT, which are low end tubes. Sovtek does have some nice WXT+ tubes that are much better than the stock wxt.

Lastly, if you get a chance, play the XXX through a Mesa Recto cab or a Marshall cab with Vintage 30s. Or maybe anything with V30s. The Stock xxx Sheffield's just sound raw and grainy to me. V30s will give it more smoothness and balance.

My question to you is how do you like the Block 5150 compared to the sig model. From what I gather the only difference is the tubes that came in it from the factory. The block came with better quality / sounding tubes. Do you find this to be true?


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Default Re: Respect to Peavey; Favorite Peavey Amp - 02-03-2008, 09:59 AM

Yea, it's true about the tubes. My Block still has the original Super 6s. They are supposed to last forever. But I am weary about gigging with them now for over 2 years and they still have muster. I will switch them out for WingedCs soon. But if you load both heads with JJs. They sound exactly the same to me.

I tried my XXX with my 1960AX loaded with V30s (because the 5150 blew the factory Greenbacks! ;D). Sounds ok/better. But I am either gonna get some 100watt Celestions for the cab(shame to waste the nicely built, matching cab), or buy either the Randall cab with the 100watters, or 2 100watters and 2 V30s, or the really awesome/to interesting cab with 2 V30s and 1 15incher.

I have toyed with the idea of those Eminence speakers since they are very nicely priced. But there are so many choices and I don't know what I want from them like I do Celestion. Also I thought about refinancing my house : to buy some EV speakers. Those things are so expensive.
  
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