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Collectors demand originality, and that comes with a price (or penalty in this case). People will pay £5k for an original M-69 pickup ring from a 1959 Burst if it means their one is back to full originality - get your head around that one!
*On a personal note, I think it's all very silly*
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
”I will lose out £1500 if I don’t have the original cable for my dumble head and amp, so I’m going to pay £1500 for a replacement and fob off the buyer that it’s the original cable”
lol.
Rift Amplification
Brackley, Northamptonshire
www.riftamps.co.uk
It could have been made by someone in China last year for all we know.
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For what it's worth anyone is more than welcome to come to my workshop and I will tell them in person that I consider that paying £1500 for a Dumble speaker cable is insanity.
Now I’m reasonably proficient at soldering - but I accept Alex/Howie might be better than me - but I’m buggered if I’d pay that much to find out....
Freud also wrote about another phenomenon, namely that of "People writing forum posts pissed in the clubhouse after the monthly medal".
but i guess if you're willing to pay $30k for an amp, and $30k for a 2x12 cab...then $2k for a cable is total reasonable.
i mean, my amp and cab is about $3k, so $100 for a cable isn't out of the question...
Then again if you're willing to pay that much the amp to start with, either you have too much money with no idea what to do with it (you could donate and help the less fortunate) or you're an investor/collector, in which case all the common sense we exercise here has no place in the matter
Beyond a certain price - probably about £50 per cable, even if you're paying someone to make them by hand - there is no point spending any more because there will be *no* improvement, no matter how expensive and genuinely better-sounding the things you're connecting together with it are.
This Dumble cable isn't even a good cable, no matter that it was made by hand - because he used crap plugs.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
if it's a genuine artefact, it could be worth the investment as a museum piece
I've not heard a single recording, clip, live show or video of a player using one where I don't think a similar sound could be achieved (in fact, in a couple of cases a *better one*) using equipment costing far far far less. I genuinely, genuinely don't get it.
Robben Ford plays through a Dumble.
He also plays, amongst other amps, through a Fender Twin.
Yet whatever he plays through he still sounds like Robben Ford.
The question is: does the Fender Twin (and whatever else) have a Dumble speaker cable attached to it?...