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Inspector #20 said:
Hmmm...ive never tried those or even heard about them for that matter.
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The wine shop across the street from us has one (the "Stanmore") and it sounds friggin' amazing.
Heard another at a local record store that sounded great too, not sure which model.
 
Terry Marshall still saying he and Jim "made" the amps in 1962, when it was Bran, Underwood and Dudley who first tinkered with them in fall of 1963. Jim never actually made an amp, he was not an engineer. Lots of history to show but I guess they gotta take their accolades as it was his company.
 
"The original idea was talked about late one Friday night in early 1963 in a Wimpy bar in Ealing in West London by three amateur radio enthusiasts after they had been to their weekly Greenford radio club meeting, Dudley Craven's call sign was G3PUN, Ken Bran's was G3UDC, and Ken Underwood's was G3SDW. As of Dudley's death in 1998 and Bran's death in 2018, the only original individual is Ken Underwood. The first six production units were assembled in the garden sheds of Bran, Craven, and Underwood in the same year, in Heston, Hanwell and Hayes, all in West London. They were almost copies of the Bassman circuit, with American military-surplus 5881 power valves, a relative of the 6L6."
 
TVvoodoo said:
Zounds buys 'em
Crazy world.

What would be cool is a smart speaker with 100 watts and 4x12s
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I saw that today on KDH’s channel.

Zounds is a Swedish company. Pretty interesting.

It would be totally cool if they decided to get into the processor/modeler game so they could play in the same sandbox as Helix, Fractal, Kemper, and Tonex. At least they’d be able to use the actual names for the amp models!
 
Not sure how I feel about this honestly. One hand, it could be an improvement over the current regime since they are both charging insane prices on reissues of amp designs that are 30-40years old now, as well as not making any new designs in the last 5 years ( the Origin was the last original design, exactly 5 years ago now in fact).

On the other hand, I always get nervous whenever a major company is bought out especially by someone not exactly already in the game. Zounds DOES make their home audio and headphone speakers but they're not exactly an amp company. They may do well, but I'm not holding my breath unfortunately. Despite various partnerships, sometimes horrible ones like the Rose Morris deal, Marshall has remained largely family owned for over 60 years.

I fear this could be something like the Fender CBS deal, that expanded the brand popularity but cut corners in quality during the takeover, until being bought out by the employees as Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, 20 years after.
 
Clockworkmike said:
Zounds DOES make their home audio and headphone speakers but they're not exactly an amp company.
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Personally, I’d like to see them step beyond being just an amp company. That has held them back. That, coupled with the fact that they keep having to do vacuum tube designs, or they barely get any respect. Not their fault; it’s the fault of the guitar playing public.

I‘m not joking that I’d like to to see them step into the modeler world. It would really broaden their market base.
 
smitty_p said:
Personally, I’d like to see them step beyond being just an amp company. That has held them back. That, coupled with the fact that they keep having to do vacuum tube designs, or they barely get any respect. Not their fault; it’s the fault of the guitar playing public.

I‘m not joking that I’d like to to see them step into the modeler world. It would really broaden their market base.
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Well they have dabbled in it since 2016 the with the CODE series which are all modellers ( typically 14 Marshall Preamps, 4 Marshall Power amps and 8 Marshall Cabinets) plus FX and computer connections for updating and additional presets.

They've also long held a small foothold in the digital market with the JMP-1 Preamp, the JFX-1 processor and even the more recent JMD-1 amp that is valved power but with an internal digital preamp and FX unit ( @Jethro Rocker has one in fact)

But with a company like Marshall, they have a simple recipe and it works: be one of the largest and most respected amp companies while focusing solely on that market. They do own a few subsidiary companies like Natal Drums and Eden Electronics, but their bread and butter is strictly amplifier manufacturing. It's what makes them unique, in that they WERE one of the last major amp builders that was family owned and wasn't owned by another instrument company ( that now would be Orange). Even Mesa Boogie became part of Gibson, so this is kinda big.
 
The cruel reality is that it's no longer an Amp company. It's a business venture. Direction of the products will be dictated by what the board deems as a profitable product line. Hence why their last 10 years of new product introductions has seen a handful of lifestyle products and a super cheap "modeling" amp line. The rest are re-hashed lines. It seemed like every decade saw a completely new design from them, but the last 20+ years has been quiet from the "loudest company on Earth."
 
Clockworkmike said:
Well they have dabbled in it since 2016 the with the CODE series which are all modellers ( typically 14 Marshall Preamps, 4 Marshall Power amps and 8 Marshall Cabinets) plus FX and computer connections for updating and additional presets.

They've also long held a small foothold in the digital market with the JMP-1 Preamp, the JFX-1 processor and even the more recent JMD-1 amp that is valved power but with an internal digital preamp and FX unit ( @Jethro Rocker has one in fact)

But with a company like Marshall, they have a simple recipe and it works: be one of the largest and most respected amp companies while focusing solely on that market. They do own a few subsidiary companies like Natal Drums and Eden Electronics, but their bread and butter is strictly amplifier manufacturing. It's what makes them unique, in that they WERE one of the last major amp builders that was family owned and wasn't owned by another instrument company ( that now would be Orange). Even Mesa Boogie became part of Gibson, so this is kinda big.
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Time for a JMD-2
 
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