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Fender Ultra Noiseless Vintage Tele vs Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pound Rhythm (STR-3)

Compared with the Fender Ultra Noiseless Vintage Tele, the Seymour Duncan Quarter-Pound Rhythm (STR-3) has a true single-coil design that hums.

Specs side by side

differs marks specs where they part ways
SpecFender Ultra Noiseless Vintage TeleSeymour Duncan Quarter-Pound Rhythm (STR-3)
DC resistancediffers11.5k11.8k
Inductancediffersnot measured4.47 H (measured, 1 reading)
MagnetAlnico 5Alnico 5
CoildiffersHum-cancellingSingle coil
Resonant peakdiffers6 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load)
Bass (tone chart)differsno chart8 / 10
Mids (tone chart)differsno chart5 / 10
Treble (tone chart)differsno chart5 / 10
Slotneck Tele pickupneck Tele pickup
Traitshigh output, noiselesshigh output, dark, big low end

How close on each spec

100 means identical on that spec. The score weighs these, and counts anything we couldn't compare as a typical difference. How scoring works

Output
96
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
100
both Alnico 5
Coil
0
one hums, one doesn't

Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).

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