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Around 2yrs ago i bought an Epiphone Rivoli (90's reissue) complete with Hardcase from Bass Gallery's website for £250 delivered. To this day i dont know if that was a typo or not but for what it was it was bloody cheap!

I know they have a good rep on here but limelights relicing looks awful to me. So unrealistic and akin to that welsh guy on ebay who buys squires and attacks them with a sander. Ive never played one but purely on looks they look amateur relicing wise. That black/tort jazz on the website - looks not in the slightest bit genuine

Flats on everything for me. Picato's on the P bass for a lovely pillowy thump sat just undet the mix Pyramid Golds on the Casady for big bastard thump but that very slighty brittleness that cuts through brilliantly

Nige bought some flatwounds off me in an effortlessly smooth transaction. No worries here

From Dissa of this parish:- I got a really quick answer from the Ashdown Support: [i]"The Preamp on the CTM15 is solid State driving a tube back end[/i]..."

Bravewood and Nash - always loved the look of them (never seen a nice looking Limelight, their 'relicing' is awful)

Aye, VERY overpriced

[url="http://webshop.cashconverters.co.uk/auction-item/951676/mesa-boogie-big-block-750"]http://webshop.cashconverters.co.uk/auction-item/951676/mesa-boogie-big-block-750[/url] Not often you see one of these amongst the usual catalogue style cheap combo's!

They arent too close to me (im in Bolton). The quiet thing seems to be an inherent Ashdown thing (maybe its the vintage style voicing) but ive never felt they put out the volume of like-for-like competitors with the same rating. As i say my supposed 250w Hartke will blow the supposed 500w Ashdown away! I do love the DP200, only thing i could see me getting rid for would be something like an Ampeg V4B or V4BH. I like the b15 type stlying, the relatively light weight and the easy EQ, You say it has the same output as a CTM100?

[font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Ive got the Dp200 head that I run with a sealed 4x10 (Ashdown RM 414). I absolutely love it![/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"]Always been an Ampeg SVT user but was playing venues where I couldn’t crank it to get the sweet valve sound without killing people. I got this in a decent deal from an ex touring artist but when it arrived the power valves where shot. I whacked a set of Harma 6550’s in and experimented with the pre amp valves. Initially I switched the 12AU7 for a 12AX7 for more volume which did sound great. However, I then stuck a NOS RCA blackplate 12AU7 in the V1 and now it sounds even better.[/color][/size][/font] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [size="3"][color="#000000"][font="Calibri"]As with all Ashdown gear ive used its never seems quite as loud as the ratings suggest (the comparison I always use with the ‘quiet ashdown’ issue is my Hartke HA2500 will eat my ABM 500 alive for volume) but the tone is sweet and lovely. [/font][/color][/size] [font="Calibri"][size="3"][color="#000000"] [/color][/size][/font] [size="3"][color="#000000"][font="Calibri"]I do need to get mine serviced at some point as I just stuck the new power valves in without having them biased but so little is known about the amp and Ashdown seem hard to get hold of for advice on Approved Repairers.[/font][/color][/size]

[quote name='Kevin Dean' timestamp='1433850029' post='2794500'] So are these Valve amps worth the extra ? [/quote] For me simply yes. Ive tried all concoction of pedals, emulators, hyrbrids etc....IF you want the valve sound (and i fully get that not everyone does) then it HAS to be a valve amp