In regard to screen resistors,
I've read a lot of internet discussions on it,
and some of them actually had some 'meat', i.e., somebody actually tried different values in a commercial amp or two.
What I read left me with this impression:
(1) Although higher resistors limited screen current, something
happened to the guitar 'sound'. SR values higher than 600 ohms made the
output stage "too stiff", harsh and non-musical in the judgment of the
players.
(2) This was thought at first to be some kind of distortion, but turned
out to be the opposite! Specifically, the 'attack' was too sharp,
possibly reproducing the dismal performance of the pickups or previous
stages. No clear results could be given in regard to the 'decay' of a
note, but since that was less important it was less noticable.
(3) The cure was to go back to lower screen resistors, to preserve a
'softer' attack, but then make some other adjustment (presumably fixed
bias adjustments or lower B+) to protect or enhance tube life.
I was really interested to find out that this approach (increasing
screen resistors) was effective from an engineering standpoint but was
disastrous musically.
Another case of solving a problem without regard to the overview and/or preserving some desirable flaw.
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