NAD - - Pure Tone Offset

Marshall

Been putting this off for some time,  but finally got round to taking a crappy pic of this incredible built to order amp from a 1 man builder in Crete of all places...the crazy (lucky!) Swede Johan Segeborn was my link into the incredible world of Michalis and his hand made amps :- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WqShGZcriY&app=desktop

The amp is outrageous (as well as expensive!) but the Segeborn clip above, in addition to many others where he uses it, probably speak for themselves

Winny_Pooh

Looks like loads of fun. More pics?

Marshall

Sure, will do...

Exorcist

Sounds killer!! How does it compare to your old (sold it?) Bluesbreaker?

Modulus_Amps

nice little package, hope you don't have pets or small children about with all that hot glass on display

Marshall

Exorcist said:

Sounds killer!! How does it compare to your old (sold it?) Bluesbreaker?

Reckon it would compare most favourably running through that 412 greenback loaded cab of yours Simon LOL!

Of course it doesn’t hurt that Johan gets to run it through any vintage cab he likes at will - check this one for instance which is quite the eye-opener in terms of the difference from one (vintage) cab to the next :
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=x3ODxpGCqyQ

the Offset itself is truly phenomenal though, literally can’t get a bad sound out of it, with seemingly endless tonal variations - bright and normal volumes, by-passable master, by-passable tone stack with his so-called ‘Pure Tone’ switch/eq, mid boost, JTM/JMP/1987 switch, smooth/raw switch, plus switch between valve and Diode rectifiers, the options are immense...but more importantly of course is the result. It ships with KT66s loaded but Michalis included matched sets of el34s, 6l6s, 5881s and 6v6s with presets on the bias pot for each, but tbh it’ll be some time before I get round to any of that , the KT66s are just so good there really seems little need! 

Marshall

Modulus_Amps said:

nice little package, hope you don't have pets or small children about with all that hot glass on display

Haha, yeah funnily enough we have both! And too many at that!

Marshall

Winny_Pooh said:

Looks like loads of fun. More pics?

Here you go...

https://i.imgur.com/gZ3DYcA.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/Jtux9Lq.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lJvvPep.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/4u3ykXh.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/IPi9jMg.jpg

Exorcist

Marshall said:

Exorcist said:

Sounds killer!! How does it compare to your old (sold it?) Bluesbreaker?

Reckon it would compare most favourably running through that 412 greenback loaded cab of yours Simon LOL!

LOL - I've sold all of my other small amps now, so I've currently got this on it side as a keyboard stand + my only home cab! Not ideal (sounds great though), I'll give you a shout as soon as I get a 1x12 cab or decent combo again in case your still looking for one! 

Watched the vid you posted of the offset through different cabs, quite interesting and that amp is outstanding. HNAD!

Marshall

Exorcist said:

Marshall said:

Exorcist said:

Sounds killer!! How does it compare to your old (sold it?) Bluesbreaker?

Reckon it would compare most favourably running through that 412 greenback loaded cab of yours Simon LOL!

LOL - I've sold all of my other small amps now, so I've currently got this on it side as a keyboard stand + my only home cab! Not ideal (sounds great though), I'll give you a shout as soon as I get a 1x12 cab or decent combo again in case your still looking for one! 

Watched the vid you posted of the offset through different cabs, quite interesting and that amp is outstanding. HNAD!

Cheers Simon! Yep, still want your 412

RMJ

I have a friend who lives in chania

Marshall

RMJ said:

I have a friend who lives in chania

..had a holiday there once..lucky friend! Although I prefer the wild, beautiful and quiet south coast of Crete personally...wonderfully friendly people   

Marshall

"Watched the vid you posted of the offset through different cabs, quite interesting and that amp is outstanding. HNAD!"

Don't know about you but although I loved all of them, for me the 1968 1982A easily takes the trophy there...!

The 1971 1960B was a worthy runner-up in my book...

mark_jwedge

@Marshall I had never heard of these before but they sound awesome in the vids! I hope you don't mind me asking but what did the amp and shipping end up costing? I only ask as I'm considering one myself!! No problem if you want to PM if you don't want to disclose the price publicly 

Marshall

mark_jwedge said:

@Marshall I had never heard of these before but they sound awesome in the vids! I hope you don't mind me asking but what did the amp and shipping end up costing? I only ask as I'm considering one myself!! No problem if you want to PM if you don't want to disclose the price publicly 

Drop Michalis a message with any questions, he is fantastically helpful and of course loves discussing amps and tone!

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