Is £2000 for an amp "painfully expensive"?

[Lew]

When I requested this several months ago I was firmly told by both you and Martin that he wouldn't be doing high gain... ever!  8)

Not true!  :lol: Here's what I said:
"To respond to the point about brootalz, I currently have no interest in doing an amp with that level of distortion for the simple reasons that (i) the advantages of handwired, turret board construction are less apparent with that much tonal mayhem and (ii) no-one has given me a deposit for one!"

That's not never!  :P

Fairy snuff! Hopefully MDV will!  8)

[MDV]

What am I, amp lab rat!?!? :lol:

Anywho, I have a horribly long and absurdly fussy email saved in my drafts (I apologise in advance, if I send it), will probably just phone anyway and am going to go to bed (been up about 27 hours now, no, dont ask) and play my powerball some more to see if I'm still ambivilent about it after that, must think about travel and stuff with repeated testing of an amp built around manchester, and will let anyone/everyone/martin mainly, really, know what I'm going to do when I've thought it over some more! So ner!

[Lew]

Nah, it's not that simples I'm afraid, MDV. The forum has decided :lol: 8)

[dave_mc]

^ also he should probably name the amp model  "teh_brootalz" or something like that. it's the law.

A modified question

Is £2000 too much for an amp that you've heard clips of, liked a lot, heard descriptions of that are right up your street, but never played or heard in person?

depends on how disposable that £2000 is. to bill gates, it's probably not a problem... :lol:

but i know i bought my engl without trying it, though that's not quite the same as your situation because I had tried several of the other engl models.

That's why I want MDV to buy one first, so my risk is less  :lol:

Yeah I'm a bad bad boy ...

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post of the week!

[MDV]

There isnt anything else calling on it save just saving it.

There is merit to that. My general bordom is leading to plans, and plans usually need money. But I also want an amp.

Cant bloody sleep!

[dave_mc]

what i normally do is be extremely cautious for about a year, buy nothing and religiously try to get to try as much gear as I can, then get pissed off, say, "$%&# it!" and then order about 5 things within the space of a week. :lol:

[MDV]

Yeah

I'm $%&#ing horrible for buying amps though. I've probably spent as much on BKs as I plan to on this amp and not batted an eylid at any one of the purchases, I've bought guitars that cost as much without hesitation

But amps....I consider them the most important part of a setup, by quite a long way, which means it takes me YEARS to choose any! It was 3 years between deciding I need a new amp and getting one last time. A couple of years before that one (decision -> purchase that is).

Anyway, sent that email to martin. Poor chap.

[dave_mc]

:lol:

yeah, i know what you mean. i do tend to overthink everything, though, not just amps. but it did take me probably 18 months (at least) before i got my engl, so i guess we're in the same boat. :lol: