@t_ramey
Great question. My honest answer? ...this thread, mostly. I reread the whole thread again (I've probably read it through 3 times now over the last 6 months), and some folks whose opinions I trust from other topics seemed to get enjoyment out of the Psvane WEs...and most relative to the Shuguang Bs (and As).
One poster noted that the Elrogs blew the Psvane WEs away (and I trust his feedback from reading his posts over the years), but since I own the Elrogs, and they didn't blow the Shuguang As and Bs away in my Melody on my my two sets of speakers, I felt it was a decent dice roll to try some WEs for the Melody, since again most posters felt they were an upgrade to the Shuguang A & Bs. I've never owned any Psvanes of any type for any of my amps, but marketing aside, I still feel like I've read good reviews/posts in general on the brand, and this is their offering that is most interesting to me, despite it's $800 cost for the experiment.
As to why not Shuguang WEs? Only in that I didn't yet find a side-by-side, other than a suggestion that the Shuguang is newer and based on a better retro design--I can't confirm that. They are cheaper--which is also interesting to me, but doesn't necessarily mean anything in the rest of this context.
Knowing me, this exercise and discussion may entice me to later also order a set of Shuguang WEs too. You know--for "science." My wife asks me when all my "science experiments" will have a financial payoff. She doesn't like my response is that "the financial payoff went to the product manufacturers."
Great question. My honest answer? ...this thread, mostly. I reread the whole thread again (I've probably read it through 3 times now over the last 6 months), and some folks whose opinions I trust from other topics seemed to get enjoyment out of the Psvane WEs...and most relative to the Shuguang Bs (and As).
One poster noted that the Elrogs blew the Psvane WEs away (and I trust his feedback from reading his posts over the years), but since I own the Elrogs, and they didn't blow the Shuguang As and Bs away in my Melody on my my two sets of speakers, I felt it was a decent dice roll to try some WEs for the Melody, since again most posters felt they were an upgrade to the Shuguang A & Bs. I've never owned any Psvanes of any type for any of my amps, but marketing aside, I still feel like I've read good reviews/posts in general on the brand, and this is their offering that is most interesting to me, despite it's $800 cost for the experiment.
As to why not Shuguang WEs? Only in that I didn't yet find a side-by-side, other than a suggestion that the Shuguang is newer and based on a better retro design--I can't confirm that. They are cheaper--which is also interesting to me, but doesn't necessarily mean anything in the rest of this context.
Knowing me, this exercise and discussion may entice me to later also order a set of Shuguang WEs too. You know--for "science." My wife asks me when all my "science experiments" will have a financial payoff. She doesn't like my response is that "the financial payoff went to the product manufacturers."