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I read somewhere that if you call ahead that you could get a tour of the factory and maybe get Jim Marshall to sign your amp.
I'm seriously considering it just so I could take all these cheap, bullshit parts that I keep pulling off my 1959 RI and shove them firmly up his *ss!
In my younger days I had two fullstack plexis that i used five or six nights a week. I loved those guys like they were my sons (or daughters). One dark night I lost them both in a bus fire. I was so bummed I quit playing for five years.
Ten years ago I finally get in a position to buy another full stack and start gigging again. I walked into a music store and bought what I thought was the epitome of Marshall goodness. An amp that was avertised as being an exact copy of the ones that I owned.
It never did sound right, and not nowing any better, I thought the fault layed with me.
Thanks to this site I now know that the fault lays with Marshall Inc. From the PT that only puts out 440 volts on the plate and 6 volts to the heaters to the cheap chiclet caps to the woefully underpowered OT. Would it really have killed the bottom line to put in some halfway decent components?

Okay, Im done venting now.

Any word on Jim Marshall's health since the stroke?

Okay, maybe not him , but somebody.

Ask for either Nigel or Basil; I'm sure there'll be someone with such a stereotypical British name at the factory that you could abuse! Oh, and BTW, Jim Marshall has been out the R&D loop for probably over 20 years. If I remember correctly, the last product development he was truly involved in was the JCM 800, early 80s stuff. He must be pretty feeble now (figurehead), because he's let the bean-counters move the majority of production to China! This coming from a guy who once preferred 100% British content in his amps. Hah!

Its called Corporate Greed. Marshall, like other large Corporations have to satisify a never endless stream of money hungry investors that love to purge money out of the coffers as often as possible. Take a great name, slap it on some outsourced product and sell it to anyone who will buy it....sound familar? Happens all the time. Most of the younger members don't remember that when their parents or grandparents bought home appliances back in the 50's, such as a refrigerator, that they would last 20 to 30 years with no problems......now you buy one and you are forced to buy a maintenance agrement because the piece of shit won't last 5 years due to cheap parts and shotty design. Ok I am all done bitching---lesson learned---build it yourself!

Allen

Build it yourself, or fix up an oldie!!!

Shredder wrote:Build it yourself, or fix up an oldie!!!

Thats what I'm doing from now on!

hey guys jim's health is ok and he is working again, it is not jim himself you should be having words with it is the RAD engineers who use the crap components and stuff.

Guitar Adjuster wrote:Its called Corporate Greed. Marshall, like other large Corporations have to satisify a never endless stream of money hungry investors that love to purge money out of the coffers as often as possible. Take a great name, slap it on some outsourced product and sell it to anyone who will buy it....sound familar? Happens all the time. Most of the younger members don't remember that when their parents or grandparents bought home appliances back in the 50's, such as a refrigerator, that they would last 20 to 30 years with no problems......now you buy one and you are forced to buy a maintenance agrement because the piece of shit won't last 5 years due to cheap parts and shotty design. Ok I am all done bitching---lesson learned---build it yourself!

Allen

Funny you should mention toasters. My parents have a Sunbeam toaster they got as a wedding present 45 years ago. They use it every day.

Shredder wrote:Build it yourself, or fix up an oldie!!!

Or Gut a new one and rebuild it yourself in the old fashion!

Nah. That would only profit marshall and we want them to fail misrably and see this line their towing between total shit parts and minimaly acceptable tone has to change. It coul dhappen

Bad Kitty wrote: I'm seriously considering it just so I could take all these cheap, bullshit parts that I keep pulling off my 1959 RI and shove them firmly up his *ss!

I laughed out loud at that.
I was offered to do "the course" a good few years ago and never bothered my arse.

Silly when I think of it, but I still don't even know where Milton Keynes is in relation to London.

The way I see it, almost everything made today is so generic and quickly produced that you really need to spend some time and money getting it up to your spec.