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Topic: 150W Dumble Amp on eBay |
Joey Ace
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Posted 27 Nov 2007 5:59 am |
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eBay item number: 300175641907
Buy It Now Price is $95K, best offer so far is only $73.3K.
Am I missing something here?
Couldn't I contract the world's best amp gurus to make me a custom amp for a fraction of this price?
Or is this a "vintage mania" thing where the buyer expects to sell it for many times the purchase price in a few years? |
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Darvin Willhoite
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Roxton, Tx. USA
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Posted 27 Nov 2007 8:05 am
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It must be that wood foot switch, without that it would probably only be worth about $50,000. 
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Darvin Willhoite
MSA Millennium, Legend, and Studio Pro, Reese's restored Universal Direction guitar, a restored MSA Classic SS, several amps, new and old, and a Kemper Powerhead that I am really liking. Also a Zum D10, a Mullen RP, and a restored Rose S10, named the "Blue Bird". Also, I have acquired and restored the plexiglass D10 MSA Classic that was built as a demo in the early '70s. I also have a '74 lacquer P/P, with wood necks, and a showroom condition Sho-Bud Super Pro. |
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Richard Sevigny
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Salmon Arm, BC, Canada
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Posted 27 Nov 2007 9:27 am
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I smell something rotten in this place...
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 2:42 am
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Statistically speaking:
50% of the people in the world have an IQ under 100. 
0.5% of the world's population controls 50% of the wealth. 
There's bound to be an intersecting slice....  |
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G Strout
From:
Carabelle, Florida
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 6:18 am Smoke and Mirrors
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Back in the 1980's I had a chance to play through one of these Dumble Amps. They were expensive then but certainly not going for the ridiculous amount that they seem to fetch now.
It was a good amp.... but most of its' legend seems to come from a combination of snake oil, smoke, and mirrors. I think Alan Hamel, and Joe Barden (pickup makers) patterned their marketing plan after Dumbles'.
1.Make a good product.
2.Put a spin on it.
3.Make it hard to find.
4.Watch the wealthy fools circle in a feeding frenzy.
Old style tube technology.... nothing special... just a point to point hand wired, tube amp with high quality components. Like many other botique tube amps.... sounds good. Easily worth 1500.00 -2500.00 but this is ridiculous.
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Bill Hatcher
From:
Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 6:58 am
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| I have heard that John Mayer has 14 of these that he has been buying them for $20K and up. |
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David L. Donald
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Koh Samui Island, Thailand
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 7:04 am
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Seems only the rich are willing to
drive the prices up for an obsession.
Most of us just want something that
works well and will be worth something
when it's time to sell.
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G Strout
From:
Carabelle, Florida
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 7:31 am
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Well, I have always thought that John Mayer was a bit of a "musical simpleton." It is refreshing to know that he is a bit dense in other areas as well. 
Now if the late Joe Pass had been collecting them..... Hmmmmmm |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 9:38 am
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Now if the late Joe Pass had been collecting them..... Hmmmmmm |
I saw Joe Pass play a concert with Ella, Oscar Peterson and the Basie band. He used a tiny Polytone amp sitting on a chair. Cost a couple of hundred....sounded like a couple of million. |
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G Strout
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Carabelle, Florida
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 9:57 am
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Yeah Bill, Joe was one of the rare talents. Like Buddy, John Hughey etc. They all would sound good playing patched into a "pignose" amp.
I was fortunate enough to see Joe play several times before his death.... on one occasion his amp (Polytone) was malfunctioning a bit. With out skipping a beat, Joe plugged into a direct box, the house soundman took a feed off of that and ran him through the house system..... Joe played a line or two. Rolled back the tone on his guitar. Smiled, and the show continued on. Sounded fantastic.... just Joe, a stool, and his guitar. 
I doubt a Dumble would have added anything to his efforts 
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Leslie Ehrlich
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Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 10:56 pm
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| Methinks a bunch of big name rock stars recorded with Dumble amps. Any piece of musical equipment that made a hit record by an artist who also inspired future generations of players is bound to increase in value. |
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Doug Beaumier
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Northampton, MA
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Jussi Huhtakangas
From:
Helsinki, Finland
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Posted 28 Nov 2007 11:57 pm
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| Well, considering how many Stevie Ray Vaughn/Carlos Santana/Robben Ford wannabies there are vs the fact that there were only a couple of hundred Dumble amps made I'm not really too surprised to see something like this going on in the auctionland. Remember, the one who asks is not the dumb one, it's the one who pays. |
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David Mason
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Cambridge, MD, USA
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Posted 29 Nov 2007 12:19 am
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There is something sort of "magical" that happens when you pile preamp stages one-into-another, but even magic only seems "magical" up until you understand the principles involved, just like weather, earthquakes, religion, hallucinations etc. People really are prone to #1-ism, can't be helped - Dumble amplifiers are the Jordan/Gretzky/Hawk/Oprah/Pavarotti/Ozzy of sound reproduction?
http://www.amptone.com/toneprinciples.htm |
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ajm
From:
Los Angeles
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Posted 29 Nov 2007 5:55 pm
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FYI:
The amptone web site talks a lot about power attenuators. Someone asked about building his own. This write up may be a little older, since one thing not mentioned is that Weber amps/speakers offers a kit to build your own.
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