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Originally Posted by Jeff Goodman Geoff T and Thrillfactor,
The new 340's are actually 340C's. Robin made 340's with the fatter pins of the 440's, and called them 340C's. The new 33609J/D uses these, as do the new 1081's.
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Hi
Indeed they do use fatter pins on the recent stuff.
In totally, factual, terms, the Neve site is
wrong if it says they originally used 340 in their compressor because they all used 440's. What they've done is take the 340 out of their 1081 (which also had fat pins) and use it in the 33609.
All that aside, the only difference is that the 340 originally had skinny little pins and a preset pot to set the output bias while the 440 had chunky pins and an "adjust on test" resistor to set the bias. Bottom line is that the resistive value of the pot would be the same as the adjust on test resistor so there's no difference in the audio performance of either beast.
Still, I'm a stickler for facts and you won't find a 340 in a 32264, 33314 or early 33609. Imagine owning an early 33609 and seeing a pair of original 340's on EBay... one might buy them as spares based on the premise that they would fit inside and then be sorely P.O'd when one finds that they fit as snug as
(excuse the Olde English ode) a dick in a bucket!
