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I A-B'd my Princeton with a Blues Junior recently, it's not night and day difference but the PRRI sounded bigger and (sorry for the old and nearly meaningless cliché) more 3D. There was also more clarity and sweeter breakup.
But currently prefer my 5E3 over either!
I don't see the problem with these amps (apart from the shop new price) but I was able to buy a very lightly used immaculate MK III for well under £300 the other week that the previous owner had fitted a Ruby reverb tank to
Some simple mods that cost well under £10 for parts (mainly caps) & some time spent dressing leads is all you need to make this amp sound better & reduce the "noise"
I always fit a lower gain valve in V1 (Jan Phillips 5751 12ax7) & ditch the "Fender" EL 84's for a matched pair of JJ 's & seeing as it's for my own use I bought a Hammond 1760 TX for this one & fitted a Celestion G12 Century (Vintage) that I already had
The result is a volume control that works with a realistic sweep so you can play at "bedroom" volume if you wish & I like the way the neo magnet Cele works in this amp.
If I had to buy the speaker/valve's as well as the TX it would probably be uneconomic to most folks pushing the cost up around £500 or so using a S/H base unit
I like Blues Juniors & seeing as it's Fenders best selling amp by some distance (as well as the best selling guitar amp in the country I believe) a lot of people agree with me
They are not for everybody of course but I like them
Cheers
D.
You can do this to any modern Fender amp that has a multi-tap transformer - which is most, although the Pro Junior is one of the exceptions - and it's always better, the amp runs cooler and more reliably, and usually sounds clearer.
The reason is that under EU law, all electrical goods must be supplied to run at 230V. But since the EU 'voltage harmonisation' is in fact a fudge - no countries actually changed from either 240V or 220V to 230V, they simply changed how those voltages were defined by tolerance, to bring them into a new '230V' range - the UK actually still has 240V. So the amps actually run slightly too hot when set to 230 - this matters most on things like the Blues Junior which runs the valves quite hot, or the Devilles which run them at very high voltages, but it's worth changing any amp where it's possible to.
It's done by swapping two wires on the PCB, or sometimes the power switch, which are push-connectors so don't need any special tools. Check the schematic to see which ones, but it's usually the plain black and white/black wires from the PT. You will sometimes have to cut a cable tie on the bundle of wires to get enough slack to do it, but no worse than that.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
The last time I measured my house voltage at around 6pm a few weeks ago it was 246V, but who knows what you'd get at some random country pub.