Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
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Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
It will be interesting to see what potential fallout this has:
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
I contend they haven’t made a good amp since the JCM800 so whatever happens can only be good
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
Hey, the 2061x, 1974x and 1987x are great amps.
Oh, wait... They're old amps....
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
They'll become the new gibbons of amplifiers, expecting terrible things...
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
My obsession with Marshall is based on the older / vintage amps. Though I do own a DSL 50 and a Class 5 combo.
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
Wouldn't that be Mesa now that they're owned by Gibson?
I wonder how much Zounds were making off licensing the Marshall name for their speakers & headphones if they're now able to buy the company. Maybe the lifestyle/audiophile part of the business is more profitable than the guitar amp side?
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Sounds like Zounds did very well out of using the Marshall name and it is indeed more profitable than the guitar amp side. Interesting that the Marshall family are the largest shareholders of the new company and every Zounds product gets signed off by the Marshall audio engineer.Lyle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:03 amWouldn't that be Mesa now that they're owned by Gibson?
I wonder how much Zounds were making off licensing the Marshall name for their speakers & headphones if they're now able to buy the company. Maybe the lifestyle/audiophile part of the business is more profitable than the guitar amp side?
I don't see it as a bad thing.
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
Mesa have always been making overly complicated amps with too many features no one uses so hard for Gibbons to make that worse!Lyle wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:03 amWouldn't that be Mesa now that they're owned by Gibson?
I wonder how much Zounds were making off licensing the Marshall name for their speakers & headphones if they're now able to buy the company. Maybe the lifestyle/audiophile part of the business is more profitable than the guitar amp side?
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The Astoria series were genuinely new, and are fantastic. Steve Dawson the designer did leave Marshall after they were released which was a shame.
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
I wonder if they'll create a product to go after the Katana/Spark market. Or the headphone amp market.
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
They have a long term relationship with Marshall, so could have probably done that already. But I guess now they will have free reign to do whatever they want.
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Re: Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company
Marshall seem to be quite a cool company, the other guitarist in my brothers band in the UK had a Marshall (I think a TSL, can't really remember) that he did a few mods to. He took it with him when he did a factory tour at Milton Keynes and showed a couple of the designers and engineers, who were all over it and impressed with some of the mods he'd done. They gave him some ideas to improve it and said they'd steal some stuff as well. Quite possibly Steve Dawson would have been one of them, he was with Marshall at the time.sizzlingbadger wrote: ↑Fri Mar 31, 2023 8:50 amThe Astoria series were genuinely new, and are fantastic. Steve Dawson the designer did leave Marshall after they were released which was a shame.
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