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Post subject: Re: Trade thoughts for this 1966 Super Reverb
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 6:34 pm
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Prices on the mid-powered blackfaces seem to have reached a plateau for the moment, while those for Vibro Champs, Princeton Reverbs, and Deluxe Reverbs continue to soar. Regardless, any vintage Fender amp will attain and retain an intrinsic value while contemporary models (from any company) will inevitably become landfill fodder.

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Post subject: Re: Trade thoughts for this 1966 Super Reverb
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:21 pm
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Prices on the mid-powered blackfaces seem to have reached a plateau for the moment, while those for Vibro Champs, Princeton Reverbs, and Deluxe Reverbs continue to soar. Regardless, any vintage Fender amp will attain and retain an intrinsic value while contemporary models (from any company) will inevitably become landfill fodder.

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+1...And I also see that the Super Reverbs that are selling for $2K and up are super clean and all original examples, while those with replacement speakers (especially new Jensens) have backed down to the $1600-$1800 range. And one last observation, seems with so many good sounding Silverface Super Reverbs coming to the market they have impacted the overall SR market driving the prices down.

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Post subject: Re: Trade thoughts for this 1966 Super Reverb
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 7:49 pm
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In my area, Twins are officially dead and some of the larger amps seem to sit around for longer than usual.

http://www.capsulemusic.com/retail/detail.php?id=1189

At a store I frequent, this has been sitting there for a while. Seems like a steal for the price, but I guess no one is using the larger amps to gig anymore. I'm thinking the next time I'm in there I have to at least have a closer look at this guy.


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Post subject: Re: Trade thoughts for this 1966 Super Reverb
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 10:22 pm
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I owned a '64 Concert Amp back in the day -- they're solid rigs with nice tone. The specimen shown in the listing seems to be all original, right down to the quartet of Fender-marked OEM speakers.

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Post subject: Re: Trade thoughts for this 1966 Super Reverb
Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:42 pm
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It boggles my mind that Concert is only $25 more than a new RI Deluxe Reverb, or about the equivalent of $1000 US. The same store has an older Champ for over $2000 Canadian!
And thanks to lovehifi for the eye candy. I bet that Super Reverb blows your socks off.


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Post subject: Re: Trade thoughts for this 1966 Super Reverb
Posted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 2:38 am
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That's the vagaries of the vintage amp market.

Back in the day, a new Princeton Reverb carried a list price of $112.50 while a Twin Reverb cost $499.50, a differential of nearly 500 percent.

Today, that Princeton Reverb commands $2500 and up but owners of vintage Twin Reverbs can't give them away for fifteen hundred bucks.

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