Quote Originally Posted by tot_Ou_tard
I was just goofing around, I knew you did not mean it ironically. :
It's always possible that what I hear is not what other people hear, and like I've said in my edit for the post, the clean channel does have some chime, I was actually thinking about a 5F1 turned about more than halfway up, and the corresponding dirt on a typical EL84 amp. Obviously I did not express myself clearly enough.

P.S.: In my limited experience, the H&K amps sound very sterile - they're well built and everything but lack, for the lack of a better word, feeling/character. When I think of EL84's I think of Marshalls.