Name:    Tim Ervin-Gore
Email:   time@darkhorse.com  
Subject: 212 HD 130
Thread:  46
Time:    Fri, 30 Nov 2001 23:11:41 GMT

In the scant decade I've had my 212 HD, it's always been the loudest, the best at cutting through, and great for focusing tone. But I know what you mean about going flat. I switch my tubes about once every year and a half. I play the hell out of this thing, and it's a great workhorse, fills any size room.


I was about to recommend checking your speakers, since you seem to identify them as being original stock, but frankly when I first got my 212 HD, it had the original speakers and sounded great. Three years later, after constant playing, I blew a speaker and both of them were dead, because for all of that time I had been playing through one speaker!! Amazing. In fact, I don't think my tone's ever been quite as good as when I played through one old speaker (not that I'm complaining, it might be one of those "golden years" things).