Got this wonderful thing with a cab last month - I’d been looking for a 5500 in a sleeve head, which I’ve now found.
It appears to be an amp from a combo in a new rack sleeve.
The good is that it’s loud, and not ridiculously heavy. It will happily do band volume at ease into 1 8 ohm cab, so I suspect it’s earth destroyingly loud through 2 8 ohm cabs…
The sleeve is cool and tidy.
DI signal is ace - did some recording with it last month.
the bad…
The valve preamp control does nothing - I have tried a new valve (lots of suggestions online that this is commonly the reason for no sound from valve pre control).
Thats really it.
i replaced the knobs - but will be able to provide a full compliment of Hartke knobs if you’d prefer. One of the silver caps is missing. I’d prefer to keep my new black/blue knobs for the new amp.
Not end of the world either way.
Collection preferred in Manchester M27, but postage can be looked into - it won’t be cheap…
Amp fiddlers may be able to sort the valve pre issue…I stop at replacing preamp valves really…