Mine arrived today. Delivered upside down in a beat-up box dumped on my porch, by my friends at brown. Mine shipped out of NJ. I was hesitant to plug it in considering the rough ride it had.
This is my B Stock B200R:
Well the tolex is fine.
No casters were included (thought some people had casters)
Not as heavy feeling as I feared.
There is evidence that this may have been opened, one corner of the head, just above the space where the cord is has a small bend in the metal, like someone lifted the corner with a screwdriver and it bent slightly.
I downloaded and read the manual from Ampeg before I did anything, the manual was not included, nor was any registration info.:scowl:
2 of the corner protectors have bearly noticable dents in them, probably a gift from UPS. I can't get too hot about that though, the box had no "this end up", or "fragile" info to tell them otherwise.
That's the extent of damage. It looks sharp,really. Still has the protective plastic over the front of the head too.
Sound check. I put it through the paces with active and passive basses, going into the appropriate input....if you were interest in this amp for "that" sound, well yeah, it has "the sound".
Does it rattle, you say?
Nope I cranked it up several times. My house rattled. Dishes in the kitchen cabinets rattled. Windows rattled. Stuff fell out of the ceiling fan. My dog ran away. My cat jumped on top of it. The amp sounded like it should. No rattles or weird buzzing. Just good tone.
What about the horn/no horn fuse blowing problem, says you?
I was nervous doing this, because I really liked it with the horn first of all, and could be quite content playing it that way. And secondly, I didn't have total confidence that mine was fixed. It could have been missed, I thought. It is one of the China imports, so the problem is potentially there, I thought. I then reminded myself that I would be better off to find out now so I can send it back if necessary. I turned it off before changeing over. Turned it back on. No problem!!
Played for awhile, then turned it off, and changed it back. No Problem!!
So the verdict for mine is, "turd box"??
Nay,fellow feline lovers! Not a turd box, but a big blue box of tone, and soul with enough volume for most old school rockers to inflict the required doomage upon an unsuspecting public.
At this price, mine is a monsterous deal.
I wish everyone else the same good fortune!
This actually happens sometimes until someone intervenes and sends the junker to the MF outlet store and clears the inventory.
They do it all the time.
