NAAD Orange Crush 35R (and Lester)

[Dacious]

Bought this very nice 2004 Studio Lester for about $US700 and part of the deal is this Orange Crush 35. The guy insisted.

Sweet little amp. I could certainly gig this and it'd make a great backup. All analogue - Adrian Emlsley does it again. More convincing than almost anything SS I've heard - Katana, Mustang, Headrush, Fractal. Given the price that's pretty impressive.

Even the reverb is more than decent. The dirt channel is - not as nice as my Rocker 32, but far from bees in a bottle. Again, with some tweak time I could make it work.

It's freakin loud too. Small, light but 101db Voice of the World speaker like the Rocker 32 - very pokey.

 

[archetype]

Bought this very nice 2004 Studio Lester for about $US700 and part of the deal is this Orange Crush 35. The guy insisted.

Sweet little amp. I could certainly gig this and it'd make a great backup. All analogue - Adrian Emlsley does it again. More convincing than almost anything SS I've heard - Katana, Mustang, Headrush, Fractal. Given the price that's pretty impressive.

Even the reverb is more than decent. The dirt channel is - not as nice as my Rocker 32, but far from bees in a bottle. Again, with some tweak time I could make it work.

It's freakin loud too. Small, light but 101db Voice of the World speaker like the Rocker 32 - very pokey. View attachment 1103302

Nice combination. People who can turn them up a bit say they really dig their 35Rs.

You also have The World's Most Comfortable Chair. When my former spouse and I had an antique/modern design shop we sold a few of those. Sit in one, put your feet up, and you won't want to get out of the chair and do anything else for the rest of the day. Charles and Ray Eames hit a home run with that one.

 

[Jakedog]

The 35RT is a severely underrated amp. Mine has been the second backline amp at my weekly jam night for almost two years now. Everyone loves it. Many of them opt for it even though as the host I generally have a nice tube rig on my side of the stage.

It’s a killer little combo. And yes, unbelievably loud when it’s pushed.

 

[Dacious]

Nice combination. People who can turn them up a bit say they really dig their 35Rs.

You also have The World's Most Comfortable Chair. When my former spouse and I had an antique/modern design shop we sold a few of those. Sit in one, put your feet up, and you won't want to get out of the chair and do anything else for the rest of the day. Charles and Ray Eames hit a home run with that one.

Our Eames chair is a knockoff, as are our other architect chair derivatives, like the Kaufman butterfly chair.

My Misso is the architecture nut, so we've done the Frank Lloyd Wright Chicago weekend including the FLW-nerd-experience. We've seen FLW work in 4 US states, and also Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney stuff here in Oz . My wife contributed $2k and got a plaque in the renewed Capitol Theatre here in Melbourne.

 

[DOC DYA]

Lester & Crush 35 RT: you can't go wrong !

 

[archetype]

Our Eames chair is a knockoff, as are our other architect chair derivatives, like the Kaufman butterfly chair.

My Misso is the architecture nut, so we've done the Frank Lloyd Wright Chicago weekend including the FLW-nerd-experience. We've seen FLW work in 4 US states, and also Walter Burley Griffin and Marion Mahoney stuff here in Oz . My wife contributed $2k and got a plaque in the renewed Capitol Theatre here in Melbourne.

The majority of those chairs we sold were Plycraft knockoffs.

Another Wright nut! He was a real piece of work personally, but had a unique design style. Here in the vicinity of Buffalo, NY we've toured Wright houses and I've seen his stuff in 3 states.

Cheers!

 

[markal]

Cool little amp. I’ve had two Crushes (the 35rt and the 60 combo). They’re great. I sold ‘em, cuz, ya know, there are other fish in the sea. Enjoy.

Love the chair. My in-laws had one of those but sold it when they retired and moved. I should have bought it from them!

 

[Tone Quest]

Nice score!

 

[gridlock]

Congratulations. I had the 60 watt combo. Very well built amps.

 

[Dacious]

The majority of those chairs we sold were Plycraft knockoffs.

Another Wright nut! He was a real piece of work personally, but had a unique design style. Here in the vicinity of Buffalo, NY we've toured Wright houses and I've seen his stuff in 3 states.

Cheers!

Yes we've been to Talliesen West, seen Mamah Cheney's and FLWs empty grave, and my wife wants to go West to see the studio. We also have to see the concrete houses in la.

Yes, he was an interesting character - the fact in the Unitarian Church of the early 1900s he thought he could make off with a client's wife without being cancelled......

An architectural rock star.

 

[Dismalhead]

Sweet pair; looks like a great time. Congrats!

Traded my LP Studio for a Strat a while back. Kinda wanting one again.

 

[norumba]

I love these amps!. They're actually my main rig now: I run a pair them in stereo and that can get loud since, as mentioned, they do sound better at a certain loudness. So x 2.... I have a love-hate relationship with the dirty channel and at the moment I'm wirking on fine tuning the cleans and just run pedals through it..