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When he met Jim Marshall in person, an amp repair guy I know told him "thanks for providing me with a living for the last x years"
I don't find that at all, the Friedmans sounded grainy, all the bogners I've tried (except the alchemist) sounded bland and then broke and I've not been blown away by the fargens. I think it's pretty hard to beat an 800 and a ts9 for that classic modded marshall tone. Plus there is nowt wrong with MG's, they're a start up amp not to be compared to Marshall's valve lines and for what they are, they do a job well.
I've not played a proper Blackstar. Want to try the Series One one of these days.
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I also like the MV JMPs - to me the very best dirty Marshalls, better even than the non-MVs. They don't always sound great quiet - they seem to vary - although they certainly don't need to be run flat-out to sound good. Admittedly they do sound *best* at the point the power stage starts to crunch as well... which is very loud, but they also take attenuators well.
Both these sounded really great up to the early 80s. (Although the earliest 2204s aren't as good, until they were brought into line with the 2203.)
The problem is that Marshall have never put both these great circuits into one amp, even though it would be easy. Every time they've tried to build a modern amp they've messed it up and produced something with more gain and more features, but worse tone and build quality. It's as if their own R&D department can't see what's staring them in the face and have no idea what made those old amps great.
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