Evans Je 150 VS Henriksen Jazz Amp

[Josip Seidl]

Hi everybodu,did any of you made A/B test and what do you think whitch
one sounds better.I have 1962 ES 175 with Paffs and Evans JE 150,but
there is no Henriksen amp anywhere around(I live in Sweden).Your
coments will shure help me a lot.Thanks for your time,Josip

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Ther a few guys like Ron Eschete using Evans amps, they're great Amps.
I think he's now using an Evans head woth RE Speaker Cab though.

Ed Bickert used Evans in his lat few years, i caught him live, and It
sounded Great.

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[335]

Not exactly an A/B, but I owned and gigged regularly with a JE 150 for
about three years. It's a fat sound with a lot of clean headroom, but
it's not the prettiest jazz guitar sound in the world in my opinion.
There is a sort of roughness to the sound, but it will cut through
anything and the eq range is a bit more versatile than say an Acoustic
Image.

I only played the Henriksen once in a music store and while I wasn't
blown away, I thought it was a decent amp. It was sort of in the
polytone family of small midrangey, somewhat dark sounding amps. I
think Henricksen has introduced a couple new models since I tried it.

For smaller jazz gigs or solo gigs I'd go with the Henricksen. If you
are playing with a drummer in somewhat bigger rooms the Evans will
work well.

[Jim Soloway]

I've owned both a Henriksen and an Evans RE150. At its best I think
the Evans was probably a better sounding amp. The problem was that
the controls on the Evans were so convoluted that it rarely did sound
its best. Eventually I got really tired of fiddling with the various
knobs and switches and sold it. The Henriksen was much more of a plug
and play setup. The controls were logical and the EQ was powerful but
it didn't take much to get to the amps sweet spot.. Dialing in a good
basic sound was so much easier with the Henriksen that I would almost
certainly take it over the Evans.

[Jim]

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I play a 175 and gigged with a JE200 for a few years. I agree with the other
posters that a) it'll cut through anything and b) I was constantly fussing
with the knobs trying to get a sound I liked. I don't think it's the best
match for a 175 and would not recommend. Back when it was the hot amp on
this NG it was being paired with floater carved tops mostly, which is
probably a better match.
Jim

[Mr Maj6th]

Me too, had one for years, worked fine with my J. Smith, but sounded
horrible with any other guitar. Reverb is basically nonexistent.

Maj6th

[ScotGormley]

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> >"Josip Seidl" <pepekjo...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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I ordered a new Evans 200 model (? can't remember precisely). Super
loud, but I could not set the treble above 1 if I wanted a good sound.
The tone controls made no sense to me. Mine arrived with reverb DOA,
and I paid well over $1K for the amp. Evans sent me a new tank, which
I had to install. They would not pay for return shipping to fix it for
me. I prefer the Henriksen over the Evans, but I prefer Polytone (the
old ones: Minibrute IV and V) to either of those amps (I like the
Polytone better than my Acoustic Image, too).

After about 6 months, the amp stopped working at all. I had only
played it for about 6 hours in this whole time, too. Evans was very
good about it, though, and replaced the entire chassis with the latest
model for free.

I should mention, though, that I found an old Evans pedal steel amp
with 15" JBL used at Guitar Center a few years ago, and I have hung on
to that amp. It sounds really nice, but is too heavy ever to leave my
front room.