New Amp Day: Marshall content...

[HANGAR18]

A small Ma&Pa guitar store in my area that I don't go to as often because I moved two counties away had a nifty little amp similar to one of my big amps and the price was too good to pass up, so I bought it.

I like that Silver Jubilee thing that Marshall has been doing. This little combo amp is a model JCM 2525c and I think it is switchable between 50 watts and 25 watts. The big head that I bought a while back is a JCM 2555 and I think it goes from 100 watts down to 50 watts. Anyway, I also thought that you really can't go wrong with a little combo amp like that so upon seeing it I bought it on the spot.

 

Edited November 16, 2023 by HANGAR18

[greywolf66]

nice score ! ROCK ON!

[bolero]

Very nice! I've heard good things about them

[rockabilly69]

Don't know about the reissues, but the originals from the 80's were really good sounding. A close friend of mine gigged with one (2554), and I played that little combo many times. I'm more of a Fender Tweed guy then a Marshall guy, and I could say without a doubt, that I could get tones that were more to my liking than I expected.

[HANGAR18]

1 hour ago, rockabilly69 said:

Don't know about the reissues, but the originals from the 80's were really good sounding. A close friend of mine gigged with one (2554), and I played that little combo many times. I'm more of a Fender Tweed guy then a Marshall guy, and I could say without a doubt, that I could get tones that were more to my liking than I expected.

Yeah I can't imagine trying to buy an original as I'm guessing that they are extremely difficult to find and that if you actually found one, it would be WAY too expensive! So I don't really mind the reissue part. They seem to be one of the factory hot rodded models that sound good out of the box an don't require any modifications the way many have done with stock JCM 8000's. And this was also during a made pre-sellout year (where Marshall was sold to some non-English company) and I deem that to be a good thing.

[rockabilly69]

2 hours ago, HANGAR18 said:

Yeah I can't imagine trying to buy an original as I'm guessing that they are extremely difficult to find and that if you actually found one, it would be WAY too expensive! So I don't really mind the reissue part. They seem to be one of the factory hot rodded models that sound good out of the box an don't require any modifications the way many have done with stock JCM 8000's. And this was also during a made pre-sellout year (where Marshall was sold to some non-English company) and I deem that to be a good thing.

 

 

The original combos sell for an reasonable amount of money. https://reverb.com/marketplace?query=Marshall 2554

[HANGAR18]

Correction... It seems that the little combo amp is a 20 Watt because I just noticed the thing on the back that said 20 watt RMS. So that would mean that it goes from 20 watts down to 5 watts. Then I reasoned that if that one had a marking like that on the back, then the big one might also say something like that too. Indeed it did. 100 watts RMS. Which is cool because for a long time I thought it was a 50 watt amp.

[bolero]

On 11/15/2023 at 10:06 PM, HANGAR18 said:

 

 

Very impressive it holds up under the weight of that half stack!