tonethrone

I'm actually wanting to use it to get a sound similar to the YOB album "The Unreal Never Lived" Anyone heard this album? It's insanely good and the guitar tones are godly. I think a JCM 600 pushed with a tubescreamer might come pretty close.

In all honesty it seems to me like $400 would be perfectly fair and square but 500 doesn't seem out of the question. I might buy it.

See, he's stiff on 500, which is understandable. He claims he bought it for $500 used from some dude 7 years back and has since blown it up and had to take it in for repairs. (Hence the new transformers and all that) It would be in the "cool pick-up" category, not my main amp. I play death metal soo.. It would just be sweet to have it around to jam some nasty rock riffs from time to time. I want to use a tubescreamer to push it, hence my current thread on tubescreamers.

I want to buy this amp but am not looking to get ripped! Anyone have an opinion?

A buddy of mine is selling one and i'm considering buying it. He claims that both transformers are new (replaced by a certified tech) and all the tubes are JJ's with under 25 hours of playing time on them. What do you guys think? It's kind of a bitchin little amp. However when he demo'd it for me there was definitely a hot tolex, fryin' pushed output tubes kinda smell goin on after about 15 minutes. May have just been old dust fryin.