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Re: Two Rock Amps: The NAMM Report
 1/23/2001 4:46 PM |
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Gil Ayan | Re: Two Rock Amps: The NAMM Report Cat: no comparison is "fair." However, considering that between all the people who agreed the TR sounded very good we must have played a combined total of about 10-15 real Dumbles, so I am comfortable that we have a large enough sample to base our "educated" opinions on.
That's not how things work, in my opinion. Of all the TR amps, there was one I didn't care for as much and there is a reason for that: it was a prototype and the design was different. It is hard to make an amp sound good at low volumes, period, and I don't believe anyone would put "mods" in an amp to make it sound good at NAMM volumes. Of course, I could be wrong about that, but I doubt it. GouMan: thanks for the compliments on my amps! There are several ways to look at the price issue, and just as you mentioned other boutique amps for half as much, I had originally thought of the Dr. Z amps for a third of the TR pirce.  Anyway, I would too be fearful of my investment ON ANY AMP if I had to pay $5K for it -- unless there was a guarantee that the resale price would be at least fair, and that is seldom the case. To me, no amp is worth to me more than maybe 2K maximum (and I mean working amps, not museum/collection pieces), and considering the option to build just about anything for under a grand, maybe I should lower that 2K figure. $5K sound more like a reasonable price for a 10-year-old car for a teenage son (or daughter), for example. 
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