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Amp Stuff => Tube Amp Building - Tweaks - Repairs => Topic started by: stratele52 on April 04, 2014, 02:51:14 pm

Title: Champ Silverface ; good deal ?
Post by: stratele52 on April 04, 2014, 02:51:14 pm

For your information , I saw today a Champ Silverface look all original $399 .
Guitar Center , Lakeland, Florida. Friday , april 4th

I'm not interested ,enough amps and I'm in plane when I will go back to home.

Title: Re: Champ Silverface ; good deal ?
Post by: eleventeen on April 04, 2014, 03:12:00 pm

First, there are very, very few good deals in GCtr. It's definitely not a good deal in my opinion. It may be what they go for...but the idea of paying $400 for a record player amp with an 8" speaker...is just impossible for me to comprehend.

While owning a REAL GENUINE FENDER Champ may give one a nice warm feeling....where can you use a Champ? In your bedroom? OK, fine. In your bedroom, I contend that there's very little discernable difference between solid state and tube other than pure fetishism. In a venue, a room where you are playing out...OK, fine, there is a definite difference in the sound texture. In your bedroom? Wouldn't you rather have a $100 Peavey amp or you can even buy little SS Fender amps with reverb and headphone outs and recording outs....and maybe modeling stuff so you can sound like a Marshall stack?

Maybe you WOULDN'T "rather own it" but please, isn't an expendable little piece of junk about 50x as useful as a Champ?
 

Title: Re: Champ Silverface ; good deal ?
Post by: jojokeo on April 07, 2014, 08:53:17 pm

I don't get the original post? stratele are you asking a question or making a statement here?