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<blockquote data-quote="Jaded Faith" data-source="post: 139150" data-attributes="member: 1068"><p>Drew: Egnater used Heyboer for most of their modular amps if not all. Heyboer are good transformers, but tend to feel softer and slower than Mercury's do in general. They are still a very high quality brand made here in America and I use them at times for more traditional players wanting a softer feel. I have never installed one in an MTS amp, but have used plenty in Egnater modular amps.</p><p></p><p>A little nugget of trivia: Most all of the RM80 amps I have seen actually used Heyboer iron in place of the cheap Chung Mai stuff in the rest of the Randall line. The RM80 was shipped with 6550 tubes and the first batch of 50W Randall transformers couldn't safely handle this. Later RM50's had the OT75 transformer to handle big bottles. As such, an RM80 will have better stock iron right out of the box. The trade off: the combo speaker enclosure on these amps is TERRIBLE and it's almost impossible to make them sound good with any speaker swap. I'd build a head shell for them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jaded Faith, post: 139150, member: 1068"] Drew: Egnater used Heyboer for most of their modular amps if not all. Heyboer are good transformers, but tend to feel softer and slower than Mercury's do in general. They are still a very high quality brand made here in America and I use them at times for more traditional players wanting a softer feel. I have never installed one in an MTS amp, but have used plenty in Egnater modular amps. A little nugget of trivia: Most all of the RM80 amps I have seen actually used Heyboer iron in place of the cheap Chung Mai stuff in the rest of the Randall line. The RM80 was shipped with 6550 tubes and the first batch of 50W Randall transformers couldn't safely handle this. Later RM50's had the OT75 transformer to handle big bottles. As such, an RM80 will have better stock iron right out of the box. The trade off: the combo speaker enclosure on these amps is TERRIBLE and it's almost impossible to make them sound good with any speaker swap. I'd build a head shell for them. [/QUOTE]
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