Bridgehouse

You stick with it mate - sounds good whatever you meant

The first one sounded (crackly) gorgeous - and was a lot louder than I expected. I had to crank it to make sure that wasn’t the problem, right?

That’s good to hear. Getting a bit more excited again now.

Old one being picked up Friday - new one dropped off Friday. Second time lucky?

Lol - no just the 20. The 50 would be serious overkill!!

I can vouch for Kenny’s Music if it goes wrong - good service

That bass is epic...!

I thought the m81 was quite different to the m80 tho?

“I killed rock and roll” rear view mirror car air freshener?

Well, despite the crackling, when I tried it with my 64 Precision it sounded the closest I’ve heard an amp sound to the vintage b15 I tried out and loved. Deep, complex, warm, smooth and defined.

It’s the future, man! We will pop your “I killed rock and roll” bumper sticker in the post

Update - being collected Friday. Comms very good from the shop and confidence restored. They are doing what needed to sort it and have put up no arguments at all. So far: highly recommended!

Shipping is £800 tho due to the fact it weighs the same as a small car... 🤣

09.30 after logging online call at 11.00pm last night - message from shop apologising profusely and telling me they are setting up an exchange (pick up and drop off at same time) as soon as they can. If I still don’t like it then full refund. Phone number and name of assistant provided if I have any questions or concerns. Yeah - I can’t fault that at all. It’s the sort of service you hope for but don’t always get.

I’ll sleep on it. Been one of those days anyway so maybe I’ll feel different in the morning. It’s a right come down when you get all excited and then it doesn’t work tho. Proper downer on my evening after a long and quite stressful day working. Either that or I’ll get a refund and buy a TE Elf for the sheer hell of it.

I’d reject that - for a brand new item I’d rather it just worked as intended without any user intervention or messing about..

Yeah - true it did.. I thought the handbox was about £1k delivered? Thing is - it’s a big wedge for a stay at home amp for recording and trying to recreate that b15 small wattage thump. It was a nice to have luxury as it wouldn’t form part of my usual gigging rig or setup - I’ve firmly buried myself in the FRFR camp with a good £2k+ invested there! £300 for a valve head to play with at home was reasonable I thought.. but yes, horses for courses YMMV etc.

Lovely. Only one teeny tiny insignificant problem - 3 times the price and over my budget by a MIM Precision...

Yours will be fine - I’m clearly just having one of those days I’ll sleep on it and see how the shop responds and decide if I want a replacement. To be fair, it looks really nice on top of my BF Compact.. it just sounds like a 1920’s gramophone with a scratchy record stuck on the lead in...

Could be - but I’m not messing about with a new amp - I don’t want any “you’ve messed with it - no refund” issues and TBH I can’t be bothered with the faff of doing that. Working late every day this week and I have neither the time nor the inclination to start unscrewing something and messing about with it. I’m sure they will be fine for a return but if they aren’t you’ll know about it! I’m lucky - I’m mechanically minded and happy to do those sorts of things - but if I wasn’t then you shouldn’t have to muck about with something you aren’t comfortable with. The user manual clearly states tubes should only be removed by an Ampeg certified service technician - lol. Anyway, there you go. Not a happy experience so far and I guess it’s just a bit of a confidence knock in the product - it may just be a bad tube or a poorly seated tube, but it could be a poor build - what if the next one does it after the warranty period? Unlikely, but hey you know how it goes..

Well, I’ve requested a return online, let’s see what they say. Dunno whether to have another or try something else now 😞

Nope. I have neither.

Yep. It’s got a user bias adjust - rebiased and no difference

PF20T arrived. Not working right Standby for 5 mins - power on, and regardless of volume gain etc there is a fairly consistent crackle - so something is screwed. Not happy.

Leave it on for the relic look