Marshall Amps Sold To Swedish Speaker Company

[FuzzMonkey]

It will be interesting to see what potential fallout this has:

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/marsha ... er-company

[TmcB]

I contend they haven’t made a good amp since the JCM800 so whatever happens can only be good

[robthemac]

I contend they haven’t made a good amp since the JCM800 so whatever happens can only be good

Hey, the 2061x, 1974x and 1987x are great amps.

Oh, wait... They're old amps....

[jeremyb]

They'll become the new gibbons of amplifiers, expecting terrible things...

[FuzzMonkey]

My obsession with Marshall is based on the older / vintage amps. Though I do own a DSL 50 and a Class 5 combo.

[Lyle]

They'll become the new gibbons of amplifiers, expecting terrible things...

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?

[moliere]

More Marshall beer fridges, but with wifi.

[Danger Mouse]

They'll become the new gibbons of amplifiers, expecting terrible things...

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?

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.

I don't see it as a bad thing.

[jeremyb]

They'll become the new gibbons of amplifiers, expecting terrible things...

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?

Mesa have always been making overly complicated amps with too many features no one uses so hard for Gibbons to make that worse!

[Olderama]

Meh as long as the Marshall product stays alive I'm happy

[sizzlingbadger]

I contend they haven’t made a good amp since the JCM800 so whatever happens can only be good

The Astoria series were genuinely new, and are fantastic. Steve Dawson the designer did leave Marshall after they were released which was a shame.

[hamo]

I wonder if they'll create a product to go after the Katana/Spark market. Or the headphone amp market.

[FuzzMonkey]

I wonder if they'll create a product to go after the Katana/Spark market. Or the headphone amp market.

The Code series?

[sizzlingbadger]

I wonder if they'll create a product to go after the Katana/Spark market. Or the headphone amp market.

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.

[Danger Mouse]

I contend they haven’t made a good amp since the JCM800 so whatever happens can only be good

The Astoria series were genuinely new, and are fantastic. Steve Dawson the designer did leave Marshall after they were released which was a shame.

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.