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Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat vs Seymour Duncan Stack Plus (STK-S4)
Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat
neck Strat single-coil
74 match
low confidence
Seymour Duncan Stack Plus (STK-S4)
neck Strat single-coil
Compared with the Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat, the Seymour Duncan Stack Plus (STK-S4) has an Alnico V magnet (punchier, more aggressive).
Specs side by side
differs marks specs where they part ways| Spec | Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat | Seymour Duncan Stack Plus (STK-S4) |
|---|---|---|
| DC resistancediffers | 9.8k | 9.62k |
| Inductance | not measured | not measured |
| Magnetdiffers | Alnico 2 | Alnico 5 |
| Coil | Hum-cancelling | Hum-cancelling |
| Resonant peakdiffers | — | 5.7 kHz (Seymour Duncan's own test load) |
| Bass (tone chart)differs | no chart | 5 / 10 |
| Mids (tone chart)differs | no chart | 4 / 10 |
| Treble (tone chart)differs | no chart | 8 / 10 |
| Slot | neck Strat single-coil | neck Strat single-coil |
| Traits | high output, soft & warm, noiseless | high output, noiseless |
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
97
DC resistance (no inductance for one of them)
Magnet
55
Alnico 2 vs Alnico 5
Coil
100
same coil type
Not compared: brightness, mids, bass (a spec is missing for at least one of them).
Videos
No videos for either pickup collected yet.
What players and reviewers say
On the Fender Vintage Noiseless Strat
“They're actually designed by Bill Lawrence, and I really like his noiseless Strat pickups (they don't really sound vintage-y, but very clear and articulate)..”