NAD: Popping my Vox cherry

Starfire · Post by **Starfire** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:35 pm

New amp arrived today. Big thanks to Tod (Polar Bear) for sussing it out a great deal for me. It arrived super fast too.

Here's a rather shitty picture.

'Tis a handwired AC15 with a Celestion Blue. It's my first Vox amp. The speaker still needs breaking in of course, but I'm really loving it. Lovely and warm and chimey and everything I imagined a Vox would sound like. The controls work really well too. The tone cut is really useful, and the master volume means you can get a pretty good drive sound at low volumes, especially on the half-power setting. There's plenty of clean headroom for my use on full power, particularly when using the low inputs too.

So yeah, very happy with it!

slash-ed · Post by **slash-ed** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:36 pm

Awesome, congrats! That Polar Bear eh, he deals AC15/30s like dealing crack.

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:37 pm

Way cool, would like one of these one day!!

badmotor · Post by **badmotor** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:40 pm

Dude, that's hot. Enjoy.

Conway · Post by **Conway** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 7:49 pm

Nice, very nice.

Post by **GrantB** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:00 pm

Ohhh yeaahhhh

Hot_Grits · Post by **Hot_Grits** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 8:52 pm

Awesome! Enjoy!

...and can you tell me exactly what it says on the back regarding where it is made. I know it's Vietnam, but I'm wondering if there's a company name or something.

Post by **GrantB** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:09 pm

Lookin' for that truck huh?

jeremyb · Post by **jeremyb** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:12 pm

Starfire · Post by **Starfire** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:14 pm

Cheers guys! I'm very impressed with how defined it sounds when driven too. Really loving it.

HG - it says that it's made by Vox Manufacturing in Vietnam with assistance from Vox R&D England.

hamo · Post by **hamo** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:16 pm

Awesome man, good score.

Polar Bear · Post by **Polar Bear** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:36 pm

Fucking epic!

bender · Post by **bender** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:55 pm

^ What he said.

Awesome amp. Quite jealous right now.

Post by **Capt. Black** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 9:59 pm

Double that envy.

mr_sooty · Post by **mr_sooty** » Thu Jul 05, 2012 10:06 pm

Yeah these are brilliant amps, and that's from a former Vox hater. I haven't tried the celestion blue version, only the greenback, but it was brilliant. Love the breakup on them so much. Congrats, good choice.

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