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All right, I went and did it. I found and played the beast. sticker shock yes but feature and tone wise this thing is the bomb. its cleans are good for a el34 tube amp-there not Roland Jazz chorus good-but they are good and with a little reverb and a strat they are that much better. channel 2 will give you about any big rock tone you could want and there is plenty of gain with this channel. I had 4 store employees over with me and we were twisting nobs and tweakin tones and pushing the amp in every direction we could to see what tone we could get out of it. it has a wonderful clip and plenty of gain and the versitility is amazing. channel 3 is your compressed lead tone channel. it is more pronounced and compressed and ready to thrash up a storm-but its good tone not noisy buzzy trash and yet I got wonderfull feedback when I placed the guitar up to the head and wailed away on it. it realy is a great lead channel. I cant imagine useing too many pedals with this amp as it sounds good the way it is. you can also set the signal to hit the speaker hard-medium-or soft for each channel! meaning your cleans can be sparkly and hit the speaker soft and yet you can assign your lead channel to be thrashy and have the signal out of the amp hit your speaker hard to realy drive your speakers to great clip even at low volumn-say a small club or your house. when I played this amp I thought quot;finally! the tone Ive been searching for and the coolest usable features to bootquot; you can tell this amp was designed by someone who thought in terms of what players need. now my other stuff is going and ime headin right for this amp cuz it realy is that good. this amp is a classic like an old marshall plexi or fender baseman but you may get rid of your other classic amps cuz this thing pretty much renders most any other amp obsolete. you wont get the realy low rectifyer sound but frankly that sound- wile good by yourself or with just a bass and drummer-tends to be muddy and you will not cut thru like a el34 amp can and the bogner tone is so nice you will never want to go back. the only other amp ive heard that compares to the bogner is the Diezel amps but they are 1500 more and in my opinion I like the tone of the Bogner x-tasy as much or more. I guess ol GearJoneser was right-once youve heard the bogner you will be hooked

DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM I need to play this thing!!!!!!! It's haunting my dreams!!!!!

My local shop are getting Bogner's next month. I'm sure looking forward to trying them. Sounds like a great amp, though.

I LOVE my Shiva!

The Ecstacy is an incredible amp as well but I'm a simple kind of man

simply put...........clip-gain-tone-features

The Ferrari of Amplification. Unless Reinhold dreams of it, and creates it, it's not going to be better than the Ecstasy. He hit the end of the EL-34 road with this one.
Who would have thought that a gay man who believes he can fly with 2 feathers would invent and build possibly the greatest EL34 amp of all time.


Originally Posted by Jeff_HWho would have thought that a gay man who believes he can fly with 2 feathers would invent and build possibly the greatest EL34 amp of all time.

Hey now, let's be fair. He doesn't expect just 2 feathers to do the trick. It looks like he's about to break some healthy wind to aid matters.

Yeah, your right. Looks like a rocket assisted launch.



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Actually, Reinhold figured out a way to get the same performance out of two feathers, that NASA has with 2 Shuttles. Mil-spec feathers! he he


Originally Posted by Jeff_HWho would have thought that a gay man who believes he can fly with 2 feathers would invent and build possibly the greatest EL34 amp of all time.

The XTC's high gain channel didn't do much for me actually, I tried it at the store a few weeks ago kinda tasting some delicious amps like the Koch Multitone (wanted to try the Powertone II, but they didn't have them in the store, and though I was very familiar with this amp the store owner insisted on me trying it again). I might not have played enough with the knobs of the XTC (did play with them though) but the voice of that channel really wasn't meant for me opposed to the Uberschall that is. I absolutely loved the Plexi channel though, couldn't stop playing it it was so thick and harmonically rich. But buying a 3k amp for one channel wasn't worth it IMO, if it was half the price it would be ofcourse . I also kinda got lost in the possibilities this amp had to offer, and it was very articulate and responded to every note I played regardless of what channel/ boost I was on