New Princeton Reverb Reissue -- first look

[jsorrien]

That's why I prefer Point to Point wiring over PCB boards, you can play different ones till you find the Magic or you can get in there with a soldering iron and create your own magic. Even if you and your body have way to many beers and screw the hole thing up you just bring it to someone who knows what their doing
and they can fix it. Your fine with PCB boards as long as your under warranty but after that your paying for a new board. But if their made in china they may be cheap to replace.

[jsorrien]

The funny thing is that my Avatar has a Chinese guy in it!

[teleamp]

Originally Posted by tiktok

They ought to offer a gear-board special: no tubes, no speaker, since so many folks seem to reflexively replace them regardless.

At the quantity Fender buys tubes and speakers in, it would only shave a few bucks off the price...I doubt they pay over $2 a piece for power tubes and $10 for speakers.

[tiktok]

Originally Posted by teleamp

At the quantity Fender buys tubes and speakers in, it would only shave a few bucks off the price...I doubt they pay over $2 a piece for power tubes and $10 for speakers.

I doubt they have more than a hundred dollars in parts for the entire thing, but it's cheaper to ship an amp without a speaker, just for starters.

Even if no tubes and no speaker translates to a hundred bucks off the street price, that's not negligible. I mean, if I see a hundred dollar bill on the sidewalk, I usually pick it up...

[59TweedVibrolux]

Originally Posted by Capel

RRP = $2399 - I reckon Venue, etc will be selling them for $1899-1999.....

I've already got tentative orders for 2, based on them sounding as good as I say it does, one guy (a harp player) has played thru a 65 Princeton & will buy if it sounds the same as the original

For buyers lets hope Fender (Aust) don't price as they did in the past. Quoted
me $9000 for a Leftie C/S Strat N.O.S. a few years back. Amps were similarly
overpriced. But I Bless them everyday, coz it made me start buying Vintage Tweed
and B.F Fenders off ebay and shipping em over. Saved a heap over Modern
Fender amps here. Got the Originals in Mint, Stock, condition figuring the Vint
Amps were the next to take off. They now have increased 300+ % in value &
Sound KILLER. For me, its the Triad / Schumacher Trannies, Yellow
Astrons / Blue Mallory Caps, Allen Bradley Resistors, Vint Jensen Speakers,
and those great Pine Cabs of the 50s / 60s Fenders that do it for me.
Those components, the 40+ years of use, the different voice coil gap of the
old Jensens & their cones (for me) can't be bettered. I found that once I'd
tasted (stock original ) Vintage Fenders I was / am completely addicted