Chinese Company Buys Marshall For $1 BILLION!

[LightWingStudios]

[tonebender]

Interesting to say the least. I have never been able to make a Marshall amp work for me. I have had an 800, a 900, a Valvestate, a DSL 401 and a few others but I fell out of love with them quickly. I think the old ones are better.

While I have you, if you PM me where to send it, I will cut a check for support of the site.

[Tonray's Ghost]

Uh Oh retaliatory tariffs on Marshall stacks coming soon...hahaha.

[BatUtilityBelt]

I already read the first post, but when I saw a reply, I read this title literally and stopped breathing for a beat:

I guess I didn't initially know what to think about any company buying Mars, but I thought Musk had the advantage there...

[andrewsrea]

I think the old ones are better.

Except for their faithful and overly priced reissues, IMHO - yes. Any 'magic' Marshalls are like a Tweed amp and need to be played at substantial volume. I lost count of the people who swore they had Marshall magic at bedroom volumes and became deflated as I cranked a Plexi to 110dB through a 1/2 stack.

I can add a few minor tweaks to a JCM800 to make them sound good at reasonable volumes.

Coincidentally, an old friend who hasn't played in 20 years is gifting me a 1971 Super Lead 100 (model 1959), which I restored and modded in 1994. Apparently, it hasn't been serviced since, was played hard in the 90's and no longer works. I insisted on paying for the shipping.

[golem]

"A quarter of the Marshall Group's sales come from headphones while 70% is derived from speakers and 5% come from amplifiers, according to de Maillard."

My LLM grabbed that from a Billboard article.

The point is that Marshall has gone from being an amp brand to basically an audio brand. That's why a private equity company wanted to pay $1B for it.

In the USA the used prices of Marshalls often make boutique used amps competitive. As a result, my favorite amps may be based on Marshall circuits but not really Marshalls.

[Buddha Pickups]

I played for years through a valvestate back in the late 90s and it was a great amp actually.
Sold it to fund my first tube amp though, a mesa rectifier