[Ruphus]

I have yet to find out whether the Slam! could come close in value to the money that I paid for it.

Really do love its colour ( great meat! ), however it eats some of the HF detail even still after having put in better NOS tubes which helped a little bit, - and it unfortunately seems to narrow the stereo field. In sight of my special problem with bad room / muddy sounding environment on principle, the entire benefit of this box shall hopefully become evident when I have moved to a place that allows good acoustics in the first place.

Also I hadn´t the case of recording drums ( OH ) with it yet ( where it´s supposed to shine ).

And a friend told me that its ( pretty dark ) elops would be wonderful for high pitched female voices.

Two weeks ago I returned from a long trip to Central America.
Havn´t decided yet, whether to move to there or eventually to south Spain, but whether the one or the other place, planned is to build a house with dedicated recording space.

Good room and specially cared for AC shall finally be the platform for appropriately evaluating my gear.

So far I am almost of the impression as if it was impossible to even come remotely close to pristine sound of major productions without heavily EQing, doubling, broadening, distorting and whatnot, and I´m curious whether a much better original signal could change anything about it.

Sorry for slight OT and all the best.

Ruphus