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06-25-2011, 08:17 PM
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I was wondering is there a way you can tell what year an ampeg amp was made by the serial number or anything was just wondering how old mine is i bought it used and was just curious |
06-25-2011, 08:52 PM
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EDIT: Not working at the moment, I think. Anyway, 5th digit of the serial is a letter that corresponds to year made:
1988 = A
1989 = B
1990 = C
etc.
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06-25-2011, 10:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2011 Location: Athens Alabama | | | yea i couldnt get your lInk to work either, mine is the letter M though what year would that be? |
06-25-2011, 11:09 PM
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06-26-2011, 08:31 AM
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06-26-2011, 08:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Munjibunga  The OP has him by the canardlies. What he should do now is squeeze. | Fender, Ampeg and running with scissors...
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06-26-2011, 12:51 PM
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06-26-2011, 05:09 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerrold Tiers I understand that system is no longer used, Loud dropped it after 2007 or thereabouts. So later units won't follow it. | Correct. I think I might have at least cracked the year designation for LOUD, but I can't get to my Micro VR stuff right now to tell you what it is for sure.
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06-26-2011, 05:58 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NOVA / DC / MD | | | What's the difference between the SLM and LOUD versions of this head? Was there a shift in production locations / quality, or just a change in ownership?
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06-26-2011, 06:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: St Louis | | | Loud closed the last SLM manufacturing plant, and moved production to china and Vietnam. The Vietnam factory didn't work out too well, so the upper end stuff went to Korea.
Where it is made now, I have no idea, but I imagine much of it is made in china, simply because you cannot buy some of the parts anywhere else these days, at least at a competitive price. In some cases not at all, the chinese will not sell those parts, only products.
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06-26-2011, 06:31 PM
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Endorsing: Ampeg | | Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Apopka, FL | | | Ya, the location was changed. Sonically, they all sound the same to me, though. If there have been any changes to any SLM designs, it hasn't shown up in the sound.
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06-26-2011, 06:54 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: NOVA / DC / MD | | | That's kinda what I figured, since I've never heard anyone prefer certain years of this amp over others (as compared to other Ampeg amps / cabs). The main reason I ask is that my head was built in 08/2005 and is listed as D (domestic), so I'm wondering where this bad mammajamma came together.
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06-26-2011, 10:19 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: St Louis | | | In 2005 it should have been built in the Yellville Arkansas SLM plant.
At that point Loud was just a few months into the picture, and hadn't done much in the way of mass firings at SLM yet.
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06-26-2011, 11:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerrold Tiers In 2005 it should have been built in the Yellville Arkansas SLM plant.
At that point Loud was just a few months into the picture, and hadn't done much in the way of mass firings at SLM yet. | Speaking of which, I don't know if you saw this, but I got curious what Jaime Engen was doing a few months ago. I heard he went to Behringer and wanted to find out if that was true, but that turned out to be a rumor. I looked him up and found his Linkedin page, and he's working at some company that provides efficiency experts to large corporations. I guess there are enough smooth running companies that need to get ruined through excessive beancounting to keep a guy like that pretty busy 
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06-26-2011, 11:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jerrold Tiers In 2005 it should have been built in the Yellville Arkansas SLM plant.
At that point Loud was just a few months into the picture, and hadn't done much in the way of mass firings at SLM yet. | That's basically what I figured (can't retool factories overnight) but wasn't sure of the timelines.
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