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The Acoustic Club

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Your best chance for narrowing it down within a few months is to find the manufacturing date codes on the pots, large chassis-mounted capacitors, or the power transformer. For example, your pots may have a manufacturing code something like "137-7407" which would indicate they were made by CTS (137) in the 7th week of 1974.

That's awesome! Of course, that's the only thing I didn't take a picture of! Thank you!!
 

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I'm in. Downsized from the 370 and two 371s to this around 30 years ago. The head came with a 4-12 Sunn cabinet which got the speakers pecked out right away.
Got the front ported Peavey 115 top cabinet first with an 8 ohm 15" JBL instead of the 4 ohm Peavey speaker.
Then added the rear ported Ampeg SVT 210 Pro and together it fills the bill.
Was serviced one time for the on/off switch but no real problems even then. New power cord and plug.
Sounds great with my bass it growels.
 
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I found an Acoustic 470 head for sale for about $325 usd. Based on the pics it seems to be in pretty good shape. I've read enough about them and heard mostly good things, tone-wise. Seems like it would go well with my '67 Guild Starfire. The only thing is, it's a 2 hour drive away, so there's a bit of dice rolling here, should it not meet my expectations.
 
So I went from a brand new 360/361 (thanks Steve) through a lot of gear, years and gigs which had me own lots of SWR (thanks Steve) and gigs, years and gigs ending up with Berg IPs.

Their significant similarity to the 360/361 is a cab with built in amp and the use of a separate pre. Do they get it all done? Oh yeah. Less weight, genius design and huge watts? Yes. Blaming the past for not being up to the present is ridiculous.

That 360/361 was soooooooo ahead of it's time. You knew it when you played it. Was other gear really great? Yes. Just wasn't this future tech. :)
 

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