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lagrelle
Published on 12/18/05 at 16:00
All Tube Power Amp (3x12AX7 & 4xEL84).
Volume 1 and -1 per channel presence (not the case with Marshall's competitor)
-2 4 out of 8 ohms 4 ohms and 2 "slave" to supply a higher power section.
The overall design is better than the Marshall EL/84:
-Controls are available for each channel
Ventilation is better-designed and the fan quieter (the Marshall has big reliability problems in this regard, the fan is winded and some users are going to pierce the upper sheet above the lamp to avoid overheating)
-Changing the lamps is not unscrew the top of the amp
However no "deep" as the Marshall is the only point where it takes over on the Mesa
UTILIZATION
Very easy to use, you turn the amp, it does heat up a little and it starts the minute standby.
However, notice two things:
-Not to gourrer in impedances
Molo-gotta go with the volume (even if the power is only "only" 2x20W), the sound "happens" relatively quickly, the knobs are progressive.
SOUNDS
I play a Mesa Studio preamp and a first speaker 1x12 Thiele Design with Electro Voice, still in Boogie, a config 'Mesa 100%, which I plug a Lag The Beast.
And there it beats up severe. Compared to Marshall, Boogie sounds a bit less accurate but where Marshall brings more british staining that tends to distort the Studio Pre, the perfectly preserved grain Boogie Mesa, raucous, raw and dark. The sound has more size, low in the palm mute are better encaissées.En clear sound dynamics is also very good, I find the sound more rotund and less right from the fifty / fifty that I had before.
OVERALL OPINION
It's great stuff, recommend course primarily to amplify a Mesa Boogie preamp without betraying the clean grain to the brand.
Power for a 2x20W is simply impertinent, to ask what use a 2x90 or even 2x50, especially given the weight, only 6 kgs!
A € 600 to OCCAZ average is more expensive than rival Marshall but its design and grain I do prefer the latter.
Volume 1 and -1 per channel presence (not the case with Marshall's competitor)
-2 4 out of 8 ohms 4 ohms and 2 "slave" to supply a higher power section.
The overall design is better than the Marshall EL/84:
-Controls are available for each channel
Ventilation is better-designed and the fan quieter (the Marshall has big reliability problems in this regard, the fan is winded and some users are going to pierce the upper sheet above the lamp to avoid overheating)
-Changing the lamps is not unscrew the top of the amp
However no "deep" as the Marshall is the only point where it takes over on the Mesa
UTILIZATION
Very easy to use, you turn the amp, it does heat up a little and it starts the minute standby.
However, notice two things:
-Not to gourrer in impedances
Molo-gotta go with the volume (even if the power is only "only" 2x20W), the sound "happens" relatively quickly, the knobs are progressive.
SOUNDS
I play a Mesa Studio preamp and a first speaker 1x12 Thiele Design with Electro Voice, still in Boogie, a config 'Mesa 100%, which I plug a Lag The Beast.
And there it beats up severe. Compared to Marshall, Boogie sounds a bit less accurate but where Marshall brings more british staining that tends to distort the Studio Pre, the perfectly preserved grain Boogie Mesa, raucous, raw and dark. The sound has more size, low in the palm mute are better encaissées.En clear sound dynamics is also very good, I find the sound more rotund and less right from the fifty / fifty that I had before.
OVERALL OPINION
It's great stuff, recommend course primarily to amplify a Mesa Boogie preamp without betraying the clean grain to the brand.
Power for a 2x20W is simply impertinent, to ask what use a 2x90 or even 2x50, especially given the weight, only 6 kgs!
A € 600 to OCCAZ average is more expensive than rival Marshall but its design and grain I do prefer the latter.