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New ampeg speculation - A true B15 Reissue?

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TheWolf said:
Way better photo From FACEBOOK
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thanks wolf!

hmmm, i'm seeing some big differences...looks like a 2-channel/2 input design like the thiele b-15n, a much larger dolly, and doggone it, i can't see what they're using for latches, but it's usually obvious when they use those big clumsy latches, and i can't see them.

hmm...looks like they read tb pretty religiously. this reissue seems to have addressed two big issues i've always had with my b-15's and talked about on here...the latches and the dolly. and i'm sure they're very aware of mark gandenberger's stellar work with developing new latches and a better dolly at Link Removed.
 
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JimmyM said:
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thanks wolf!

hmmm, i'm seeing some big differences...looks like a 2-channel/2 input design like the thiele b-15n, a much larger dolly, and doggone it, i can't see what they're using for latches, but it's usually obvious when they use those big clumsy latches, and i can't see them.
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That looks unbelievably good. Changing the latches was a good move - nearly every B15 I see has at least one of them missing.
 
#426
LOUD is doing the right thing - they aren't Ampeg, they're LOUD. They bought the name. The US Ampeg factories are long gone, but they shouldn't just by the name and make cheap copies overseas and sell them for a premium price.

Nobody wants to buy any "new" designs branded "Ampeg" - just the same old. To make them in the US, it's going go cost more. Think of the tech putting them together, you want somebody with experience and skills, that doesn't come cheap in the US.

Tubes are going to come from overseas. And they're going to have the same 90 day warranty as any other tube amp, boutique or not.

LOUD should use the best components possible in these amps. No matter where they come from. Some of the best are made overseas. They may need to have some custom made components, it may be way to expensive to source these in the US.
 
#428
John D said:
Black? Tell me it ain't so.
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dude, i told pyotr they need to lose the b&w images on their website, but i guess he's slow to change the look. they recently put out the best looking grillcloth in history on those heritage svt's and you'd never know it because of the b&w photography.

it's very much blue checker.

EDIT: no it isn't. whoops!
 
#429
Calaverasgrande said:
Ampegs old VT series gutiar amps were some of the best amps I have ever played guitar through. If they skipped past all of the mis-steps they made in the 80's and 90's and brought those back? Awesome.
And yeah I double!
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Every guitarist I have ever known disliked their newer guitar amps because they were too clean. But I've played with a few people who used the old Gemini and Reverb Rockets. Those were great little amps.
 
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JimmyM said:
dude, i told pyotr they need to lose the b&w images on their website, but i guess he's slow to change the look. they recently put out the best looking grillcloth in history on those heritage svt's and you'd never know it because of the b&w photography.

it's very much blue checker.
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Well, let's pay tribute to Sandrine Lee (Will Lee's wife), who did an awesome photography job for the Ampeg website. But yeah, you're right, black & white pics will never do justice to blue checker.
 
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JayAmel said:
Well, let's pay tribute to Sandrine Lee (Will Lee's wife), who did an awesome photography job for the Ampeg website. But yeah, you're right, black & white pics will never do justice to blue checker.
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sandrine's pics are fabulous for print...very classy well thought out layouts (and save ampeg money in printing costs). but not for the website. i guarantee you they lost sales of heritage cabs just because they don't have a good color shot of that grillcloth on their website. i've seen color pics of it, and even without seeing it in person, it's the classiest looking grillcloth i've ever seen. even if you get sandrine to take the main headshot in b&w, throw up some extra color shots.
 
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you know, upon further inspection, the latches, from what i can see of them, look identical to mark's ( Link Removed ) latches, which look like this:

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he had to make a run of custom 2-sided strikes for those latches, which were not cheap at all, but they're the best latches ever. still going strong after over 2 years of being used and abused on 6-10 one nighters a month. and if memory serves me, ampeg consulted with him on the 2005 b-15n reissue that got shelved and they were going to use those locks.

of course, all we can see is part of the strike, but it sure looks like the 2-sided vintage blue strike. you guys with me on that?
 
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esoxhntr said:
It's a beauty, no doubt! Is this supposed to be a re-issue of a particular year? I don't see a double baffle...
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you won't see it from the outside. but it's a double baffle. ampeg posted an inside pic on facebook where you can clearly see it's double baffle construction.

i thought it was going to be solely based on the 64 b-15nc, but the head is a new thing i've never seen before that's sort of a cross between the 64 and the heads from between 69-80.
 
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