Had a spare couple of hours this afternoon and have just spent most of it playing with Vintage Verb - I tried just about every comparable test I could on Standard Valhalla and Vintage on a piece of acoustic guitar I recently recorded that sounded just a little bit flat - in my view they do sound different and I could not exactly replicate one with the other.
Now does it sound better - very subjective that. I liked very much Vintage on this acoustic guitar part.
Standard sounds great and has basically become my go to verb - I use this and Aether which I luckily picked up for a sensible price in a group buy some years ago. At one time I only used Aether but Valhalla is so good (and quick and easy) it gets used a lot these days.
Vintage the conclusion.
I do like the complex nature on the more colored reverbs - sounds, I don't know, denser?
I can see me using this on some things and Standard on others, so it looks like no Turkey this Christmas, just bread and gruel!!!
Off to spend the Turkey money soon as I post this!
Happy Christmas to everyone
Nigel