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Here's the very wonderful Ed Friedland reviewing the Genz Benz Streamliner 900 and A/B-ing it briefly against the ShuttleMax.

https://youtu.be/d-27szg61bw?t=2m53s

I've brought you into the video at the point where he plays the same phrase twice through each of the two amps, on the same settings.

I expected him to say "[b][i]So, as you can hear, the two amps sound utterly identical"[/i][/b].

Erm ... not so much ...

Fair enough, I'm using a pair of earbuds from a laptop's headphone output. I'm quite prepared to believe that I'd be able to hear more through a high-end soundcard and a pair of £200 headphones, but as far as I can make out these two sounds/tones are indistinguishable.

Is it just my ears?

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I could hear no difference played at a comfortable volume. Played through a Bose Companion 3 system via a Mac. I am struggling with ear training however.

Perhaps worth turning this into a Poll with people stating their audio medium

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There was much more variation in his articulation of each run than between the amps IMO - I dont see the point trying to A/B stuff if your not going to play the phrase extremely consistently (which he wasnt) or even better play into a looper pedal and switch it over.

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[quote name='Musicman20' timestamp='1504779201' post='3367223']
I own both amps, and they are tonally quite different.
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I've had both: totally different animals!
The Streamliner is darker and meatier. You don't have to tweak to get a good tone. The Max needs a bit of twiddling to get a good tone i.m.o.

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I'm playing the video through my hi-fi, which is connected, via bluetooth, to my laptop.

I can hear abso.....lutely no difference.

In a live context, playing with a band, I doubt anybody would.


Interestingly, recently I turned up to a gig and the amp provided had two channels. I didn't like the sound much, so twiddled with the EQ and eventually found a much better sound from the amp.
Just before the second set I had another look at the amp and realised that I was plugged into channel 1 and I had been adjusting my sound with the EQ of channel 2. I could have sworn I was hearing the sound change when I was adding more bass and reducing the treble but in reality, it was all a figment of my imagination.

I suggest that, if people were not made aware that Ed had swapped the amps, they would hear no difference at all.

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[quote name='gjones' timestamp='1504959019' post='3368562']

Just before the second set I had another look at the amp and realised that I was plugged into channel 1 and I had been adjusting my sound with the EQ of channel 2. I could have sworn I was hearing the sound change when I was adding more bass and reducing the treble but in reality, it was all a figment of my imagination.
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Been there, done that. It's a really important lesson.

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The ShuttleMax has more low mids when the Streamliner is more scooped in the mids around 1 KHz (a typical American sound à la Bose, which I don't like at all as it's missing the most important part of the spectrum) and, as I always say, go and make a real full test of your ears by a specialist : you'll be amazed by the results !

To me, there is a big difference between the two.

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