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Good, No EXCELLENT find. I just nearly duplicated your find last month at the Sacramento Antique Fair, a monthly event under the overpass. You rarely find anything good musical, but I keep looking. I did find a way cool pump organ (think Neil doing the acoustic version of Hurricane that folds up into its own box for transport, but I digress. Mine is identical in cosmetics but is a 60-7 Obviously half the power and just two 6l6's. Pretty much the same otherwise, a Pyle 12-inch speaker date 1983 that sounds decent to my ear, at the moment all my spare 12's are either 4-ohm or 16-ohm so I've got nothing else to try that wouldn't cost me something. I paid $150 with some risk as I couldn't test it first, although the vendor is always there, I could have took it back the next month. It works pretty good. It seemed it little flaky at first, but after I took all the tubes out to test them on my Hickock and then put them all back in, it seems maybe on or two were a bit loose at it seem pretty tight and reliable now. The pots can be a bit scratchy but after a few hours of figuring out how the two channels interact without a pedal and it's pretty clear that's something I never find (weird DIN plug) I found my sound, I just adjust the master volume to suit. I can produce nice tone anywhere from just audible to extremely loud. I would put it about equal to a Bandmaster or Pro Reverb in the Fender side. Maybe 45-50 Watts Max, more than I would ever need. The reverb tank is good but not great. It is subtle, you can hear it, it adds some body, it is more adjustable than a Fender with two knobs, but it will never do Surf City. I pretty much set it and forget it. I'm overall very happy with my flea market find, much pure tube bang for the buck and seems pretty robust. It's not the prettiest thing in the world, but I didn't pay for gorgeous, just good tone, and it does deliver. Two Thumbs Up.
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