damn! now i wish i had hung on to my mg100dfx...
prolly jim would pay you to keep it away from him
:lol:
Personally, i just dont understand why, if Marshall's newer amps are inferior to the old ones (and Jim seems to be acknowledging this by buying back old ones), why Marshall don't just make better amps today?
A bit late, but the reason that they don't make amps like they used to is because they can make them cheaply and people will still buy them. I thought the JCM 900s were their last decent amps, the earlier ones when they still used good transformers being the best of the bunch. I can't stomach the JCM 2000s at all, cold and fizzy POS even after a rebias, and the reissues are absolutely no comparison to the old ones.
Actually the handwired series looks OK, there's lots of people doing what MArshall should be doing. Rivera, Roccaforte, Krank, Cornell, there's another English builder I came accross at LGS (I can see the guy but can't remember his name....)the list goes on.
Right on. I'd still buy an old Marshall, '69-'74 because you can get them cheaply, but Roccafortes are today's old Marshalls but with a price tag too. If I had excess money, I would certainly buy one!
They should of Re-issued the JCM900 2100 model, not the 4100. Apparently the 2100 is the best of the 900's. I decided to keep my JCM900, i had a good go on it yesterday (cranked up of course) it can do every thing i want it to, i just needed to know how to. I wouldn't go near the DSL and TSL amps, the other guitarist in my band has one and i don't like it at all. They really should bring back the old models.
Right on. I agree 100% about the JCM 2000 vs 900s, 800s, JMPs, plexis, etc. I have a 2100 SL-X which is what I would have liked to see them reissue. It still has the tubes biased stock (cold) and does not sound close to 100% its potential but it's stil a huge step up from a properly biased JCM 2000 without a massive amount of mods. I will be getting a Marstran '68-'80 era transformer put into my SL-X and a few mods to it to make it sound like a hotrodded plexi. I've heard from so many people that the Marstran transformers are a perfect replica of the real deal. I'll let you know how that all works out - I'll be bringing it in for work next week sometime!
