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Title says it all.

A few months back my Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 401 up and croaked. It was an early model (2001). Turns out the rectifier in the early models wasn't correct so the amps ran way hot. I'm pretty sure that's why mine bit it.

Today my (circa 1994) Carvin X-100B (Fozzy Bear Series) sputtered, hissed and puked up a few wallops of 60 cycle type junk and blew out the mains fuse. Another fuse in...power on...BOOM...it blew. Tubes only have 100 or so hours on them. I can't complain too much seeing how much use I got out of it over the years and it's survival of at least 100 gigs.

I guess they can be fixed but competent repair folks are mighty hard to find where I live.

My lone survivor. A 1973 Fender Pro Reverb I bought 2nd or 3rd hand for 200 bucks back in 1990. Still works perfectly and sounds great.

So I guess it's time to look for another unit and I'm not even going to consider anything that ain't built PTP. So it looks like Matchless or Kendrick or something like that.

Hmmm. I'm UP to one amp.

I keep building amps to sell, then I dig the tones and wanna keep them. I have a bad feeling that after I finsih this JTM45 soon, I'm going to have to build one for myself.

The prices on Scott's amps are needless to say OUTSTANDING, granted it's hard to buy something without hearing it - I'm sure if you talked to him he could demo it over the phone or something - that 45 watter sounds delicious. I'm saving my money - I think I here one of those deluxes calling me!!!