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02-02-2012, 01:12 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | About to pull the plug and but this Ampeg Blueline SVT!
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ANy last words of advice? The place is a repair shop that does consignment and only wants $1000 for this! Worried about the vintage aspect ... what should I look out for? They said they would pop it open and make sure its in working order but if there is anything I can do to make sure all is well let me know!!! Besides try it out of course. I'm stoked! 
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02-02-2012, 01:15 PM
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02-02-2012, 02:26 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | I'd but it, buy it, then bite it! If it works, that's what you'd call a "steal." If it doesn't work, still a good deal unless the transformers are gone (highly unlikely). Bonus points if it has 6146b's instead of 6550's, but still an awesome amp. Just play it and move all the knobs and make sure everything works as it should. Then buy it and run like hell!
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02-02-2012, 02:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Bristol, UK | | | Vintage usually = repairable easily. Maybe you have to do it once you get it, but that means it can be done again, indefinitely.
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02-02-2012, 03:07 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | The owner says he thinks tubes are 5880s? Getting it for 800!
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02-02-2012, 03:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | I bet he meant 6550s
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02-02-2012, 03:45 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Albany IL | | For 8-hundy, you shouldnt be posting here - you should be buting! 
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02-02-2012, 04:02 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Very easy to tell the difference between 6550's and 6146b's with those caps on the top of 6146b's. But he probably meant 6550's. Most Blue Lines have been changed over to them.
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02-02-2012, 04:07 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | do you really have to ask? just go buy that thang. i guarentee it'll be unavailable soon. |
02-02-2012, 04:14 PM
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02-02-2012, 04:17 PM
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Originally Posted by JimmyM  I'd but it, buy it, then bite it! If it works, that's what you'd call a "steal." If it doesn't work, still a good deal unless the transformers are gone (highly unlikely). Bonus points if it has 6146b's instead of 6550's, but still an awesome amp. Just play it and move all the knobs and make sure everything works as it should. Then buy it and run like hell! | This!!
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02-02-2012, 05:00 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Vancouver | | | I'd totally but it. Man, wish I could stumble across stuff like this. |
02-02-2012, 06:30 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | Got it!
Some of you may remember that I was about to have my V4 4x12 cab resided to 2 ohms. The guys at the shop said to leave it at 8 ohms. And that the vintage svt is 4 ohm only or higher and 2 could hurt it. O have heard here that 8 could hurt it.
I'm confused now!
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02-02-2012, 06:46 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | Sorry guys I have fat thumbs and I'm on my phone!
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02-02-2012, 06:48 PM
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John K Custom Basses | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Thousand Oaks, CA | | | tow ohms won't hurt an SVT at all (they have a 2 ohm tap), but i wouldn't run it at 8 ohms very often. |
02-02-2012, 07:08 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | And I wouldn't run it at 8 ohms very loudly. It's when you start pushing it hard that the problems can occur.
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02-02-2012, 07:15 PM
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02-02-2012, 07:20 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: montreal canada | | | how is a place that's a repair shop not sure what the difference between tubes are?
what's the name of the place? |
02-02-2012, 07:42 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: Austin, TX | | | The owner didnt know. It was on consignment. But they did tell me that 8 ohms was fine all day long.... and that 2 ohms is bad. Is 2 ohms bad?
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02-02-2012, 07:46 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | It's built to take 2 ohms! Put a 4 ohm in the first speaker out and another in the second.
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