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(More customer reviews)I purchased the revised version of this (rev 2?) new in Sept, 2010. It's a beautiful amp. Build quality appears excellent, though I'm not going to take it apart to comment about the wiring, etc. The main thing is the sound. This amp has no effects loop, and can only achieve gain via naturally overdriving the tubes... You know, the way gain first just sorta' happened. And it has no reverb, chorus, or other effects. So if that is what you are after, it won't be for you.
That said, this amp does what it is designed to do very well. It has treble, mid, and bass for tone control. At lower volumes, it has a nice warm clean tone. For traditional rock-n-roll gain, you turn up the volume. It's a pure tube Marshall amp, so as you might expect, it produces the traditional pure tube Marshall tone. If you have an ear for tone, you can dial in a wide variety of tones that you have heard from the various rock stars of the world.
You have to understand a little bit of physics to imagine how loud it is. You have to quadruple the wattage in order to double the range of a sound at the same volume. So if you are standing 5 ft. away from this, it will sound as loud as a 100 watt head when you are standing 25-30 feet away. In other words, it's plenty loud for most practice and way too loud for night time practice without disturbing the family. And it's probably great for many small gig uses. There is no problem getting good controlled feedback, etc. But this is not about volume. It's about tone. And the tone is beautiful.
One thing I've noticed is that when the volume is turned all the way off, there is just a hair of volume that slips through. Whether this is a flaw or not will depend on your perspective. I love it because it gives me a good late night practice volume. So I call it a benefit.
I'm very happy with this amp. Hearing the quality of sound I can get has definitely helped me stay inspired to practice, and to be happy with the results when I get something right.
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