School me on the Engl E840/50 power amp. Any experience?

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I am considering the Engl E840/50 for one of my stereo/re-amp rigs. I'm using a Suhr Reactive Load for my amp then running into a splitter/effects/mixer setup to run my dry sound and all my effects in parallel. Then my Rane SM82 stereo mixer sends everything out to a Matrix GT1000FX power amp and out to my left and right cabs. I'm happy with the Matrix, but I have never tried a tube power amp and am curious what it would bring to the table that the solid state/mosfet Matrix power amp may not. The Matrix certainly is powerful enough and is very flat and clean in it's reproduction and amping of the sound sent to it.

Anyway, does anyone have any experience with the Engl 840? Good? Bad? Well built? Reliable?
 
The 840/50 is the best tube power amp available for any money, in my experience.

I've gigged the Mesa 2:90, 20-20, and Marshall EL 34 Dual Monobloc. They are all great amps, but the E840 is just in another league. The presence control is fantastic as a basic global EQ for different rooms, and having a footswitchable boost on the power amp is a great option for gigs. I used mine mostly with an Engl SE preamp, and the E840 pumps out huge low end without getting muddy. It was by far the best power amp I've ever used.

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squank said:
The 840/50 is the best tube power amp available for any money, in my experience.

I've gigged the Mesa 2:90, 20-20, and Marshall EL 34 Dual Monobloc. They are all great amps, but the E840 is just in another league. The presence control is fantastic as a basic global EQ for different rooms, and having a footswitchable boost on the power amp is a great option for gigs. I used mine mostly with an Engl SE preamp, and the E840 pumps out huge low end without getting muddy. It was by far the best power amp I've ever used.

Thank you for the input! :thumbsup: It sounds like you are a very satisfied Engl E840 owner. Has tube life been good for you and are you using 5881s in the power section? I am guessing it is fixed bias (meaning adjustable) like typical guitar amps? I bias my own amps, so wanted to make sure. It is hard to find out much on the Engl power amps. I have already pretty much eliminated Mesa and Marshall. At this point I am trying to educate myself and decide between the Engl and a Fryette 2/50/2.
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squank said:
I had a typo earlier - I actually had the 850/100 with 6L6s in it, but I think the 840 would sound pretty similar with the 5881s. Tube life was great. It does have internal bias adjustment points.

Here's the manual for the 840/50

http://englamps.de/wp-content/uploads/OM_E840_Tube_Poweramp_2_x50W.pdf
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Hi there, I know its a very late reply but just only now found this forum so I thought its worth asking. I have my ENGL 850/100 for years now and its a powerful beast with a great quality sound but my question is this: was your unit dead quiet after switching on button (without standby for any channel's) or you could actually hear the unit making the (electric device/high transformer type) noise?
 
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