https://www.myrareguitars.com/magnatone-amps-tone-pt2 All about rare & vintage guitars, guitar amps, fx pedals and more! Sun, 09 May 2021 21:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.26 https://www.myrareguitars.com/magnatone-amps-tone-pt2#comment-1260421 Sat, 29 Oct 2016 15:42:38 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=6933#comment-1260421 I have been playing for over fifty years and recently got a Magnatone Varsity Reverb from Corner Music on a trade in. They sold me the floor model and it turned out to be a nightmare that finally was resolved with some help from Magnatone. The amp was blowing EL84s again and again and Magnatone finally agreed to pay for shipping back to them for repair. They put in a new chassis with the same box and shipped it back to me. I fired it up and again one of the EL84s starting glowing red. They shipped me two new matched pairs and the same thing happened again. At this point, they decided that I was a trippy customer and it was no fault of their amp. So they offered me a refund. But I was stubborn, as I believed that the amp would perform as soon as we figured out what was wrong. So I persisted and after the sixth batch of replacement EL84s, the amp finally worked as it was promoted to. At one point, Magnatone actually admitted to me that they had gone through a bad batch of tubes, but refused to admit that the problems with the amp was their fault. Anyways, through my own diligence and refusal to give up, I proved to Magnatone that I was more dedicated to having their amp succeed than they were. And it is a monster of an amp, when it works right.

]]> https://www.myrareguitars.com/magnatone-amps-tone-pt2#comment-318134 Mon, 05 May 2014 17:50:55 +0000 http://www.myrareguitars.com/?p=6933#comment-318134 The new Varsity is a giant-killer.

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