NAD (again!)

[Dr.Pain]

I use a Blackstar HT-5 and get a sound very close to what I want to hear.  I like 5150's/6505's but I don't have that tone and yet the HT-5 sounds good for what I do.  I like Slayer and I can get a good Kerry King style tone from it.  I will get a 5150 as I've wanted one since 1993 or so when I first played the 60 watt 212.  But I will use the HT-5 more I feel as I can use the volume and keep my hearing.

It's easy to copy but harder to find something a little different that works for a range of tone.  I like chasing tone.  It feels like an adventure. :)

[Dave Sloven]

I will get a 5150 as I've wanted one since 1993 or so when I first played the 60 watt 212.  But I will use the HT-5 more I feel as I can use the volume and keep my hearing.

The 5150 series of amps is certainly one of the loudest out there!  They sound much better as you turn them up too, which is a bit of a bitch because you are stuck at playing around 1 on the dial or 2 at best if the people in the next quarter-acre Ozzy block either side of you happen to be out for the day.  Otherwise you only hear them at their full potential in a sound-proofed studio or at a gig at a pub without residential volume limits.  They sound incredible though when turned up.  BTW we A/B'd my 6534+ against a 5150 II on the same settings (they have the same EQ) and my 6534+ was the clear winner.  A lot more mid cut and a tighter bottom end.  Peavey prices are going up, up, up in Australia though thanks to the change in distributors.  If you hunt around the shops who bought up stock from the old distributor you can still get some bargains.  I saved $1500 on the current RRP of my 6534+, and almost $1000 on the current 'sale' price through Allans.

[Dr.Pain]

I would go 5150 III 50 watt.  They sound good at low level as I would use the pre amp tubes more than the power tubes.  My 60 watt vypyr is very loud so I can only image how loud the 5150's really are.  I do remember playing the 212 back in the day and the stop attendant saying please don't turn it up as they wanted to stay in the shop.

[Dave Sloven]

Let me put it to you this way:

The first time I went to my friend's practice room and he was playing through his 5150 II I had to move because my 'boys' were in the firing line of his cab and were starting to feel a bit bruised.

That was the moment that sold me on these amps  :lol: