If you know you love the Seth Lover's go with them. The Seth Lover humbuckers are available with either vintage-correct single conductor push-back braided lead wires or modern 4-conductor lead wires for increased splitting and wiring capabilities. Any guitar today that uses two coils in the same housing wired to get rid of the hum associated with single coil pickups owes a bit of thanks to the original pioneer of pickup design, Seth Lover. I had a similar dilemma recently. Slightly less output than seth lovers (probably because the featured alnico 2 magnets are factory-degaussed on the antiquities). The SH-55 Seth Lover model is Seymour Duncan’s tribute to the father of the humbucking pickup. Seymour W. Duncan and Seth Lover. The Seth Lovers are definitely a little brighter than the Antiquities and have definite "honk" (mid scoop) particularly in the bridge position. They have a fluidity and tonal texture that is more responsive to player input and … Seymour made this Antiquity ™ model to look and sound like a well-worn '50s humbucker as originally designed by Seth E. Lover. Tonally, it is similar to the Antiquities except that there is a little more of the midrange "honk" within the tone as well as some more bite on the top end. The 59 I tried sounded good, but nowhere near the tone or dynamic response of the seth. Seth Lovers are some of the best pickups Duncan makes. Each has its own character and DC resistance, just like the originals. I went with the #7's because I had 57/08's in a CU24. You could easily and with $5-10 buy a UOA5 or other kind of degaussed magnet then age … Really nice pickup but a little different from the usual smooth but clear PAF clone, which the Antiquity is more in the style of. Gday all, this has probably been discussed before( so apologies if it has),but I would just like to know peoples opinion of the seth lover and the antiquity humbucker.I have the seth in the neck of a 50s CV, and dont know whether to put another seth or try the antiquity in another CV I have. The Seth Lover succeeds. I now have a … The deciding factor for me was that I knew I loved the PRS pickups. In my chambered mahogany body tele, the Seth Lover was darn near perfect. Having both a sheraton with seth lovers and a es-335 with antiquities... My life is complete (for now). I was deciding between 57/08"s, #7's, and antiquities for a new guitar. The pickups are built to traditional standards. Keep in mind that antiquities are just degaussed magnets with some aging, and they cost substantially more. I've also had great results with Antiquities, Jazz and a few older Dimarzio PAF's. Re: Stormy Mondays vs Seth Lovers « Reply #5 on: January 08, 2018, 07:52:41 PM » Nazgul and aftermath are supposed to be the same kinda thing, … The Seth Lover came about as a result of Seymour Duncan working with Seth Lover (the original PAF designer) himself to help come about with a truer PAF pickup. I have had Antiquities in and out of about a half dozen 335's and have always preferred their presentation vs Tim Shaws, 57 Classics, Peter Florance and the Seth Lovers.