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Post subject: Yorkville BM200. Combo 200w bass amp.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 4:19 pm
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The seller asks $225.00 for this amp, what do you think. I think that Yorkville became the Traynor company a few years ago.
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Post subject: Re: Yorkville BM200. Combo 200w bass amp.
Posted: Mon Nov 07, 2011 10:42 pm
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Yorkville Sound is a respected longtime Canadian based amp & speaker cab manufacturer. Yorkville Sound always made Traynor amps from day one along with the later developed Yorkville amps and cabs. Sort of like Ampeg made Ampeg and Crate amps in the same building.

Peter Traynor was one of the founders of Yorkville Sound and long time company Vice-President. Traynor left the company in 1976 due health issues (chronic back trouble) and Yorkville went on a gradual 17 year long phase-out of the Traynor brand before reviving the brand Traynor badge in 2000.

The BM200 was a robust amp capable of 200 watts at 2 ohms. There were 1x15 and 2x10 versions. The 2x10 version was the BM200T. Both have horns. Tough little amps. Lacking an XLR direct out somewhat dates the models though. But it is a well made, compact and (at under 60 pounds for the 1x15) relatively light amp compared to other similarly powered turn of the century conventional bass combos.

Yorkville no longer makes instrument amps as such. Since reviving the Traynor name in 2000 they have since phased out Yorkville instrument amps. Now Traynor is Yorkville Sound's sole instrument amp line. One company making two very good instrument amp lines may have seemed needlessly redundant.

From the "Too much information" department: Apparently a B.M. doesn't mean the same thing in Canada it does in North Carolina. I would snicker every time I looked at it....or get the urge to head for the restroom. Coincidentally, 10-200 is police radio code here for taking a duty break to have a BM. (You can probably extrapolate from that what a 10-100 duty break would entail.) Therefore BM200 is just too hilarious a model name. Whoever named them should get some sort of bad marketing award. Good product, with a stinky name.

Still a 200 watt Yorkville for $225 would be a decent buy if in above average shape. New they retailed at about thrice that. Yorkville bass amps were as reliable and durable as any other North American proline brand. They are noted as having a clean sound and being rugged enough for gigging musicians.


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