SOLD!! silverface Princeton Reverb aka The One: excellent condition, 12" speaker, £1099

dcg

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Excellent mid 1970s silverface Fender Princeton Reverb, which has been my main rehearsal and small gig amp for many years; this has seen off vintage Deluxe Reverbs, a Carr Rambler, the odd Bad Cat, a H+K Puretone, and several Mesa Boogies.  It arrived with a 12" speaker, although I've upgraded to the smooth cone WGS you see here - a revelation in just about any Fender combo.  
And as anyone knows, a PR with a 12" kills; plenty of  headroom (much more than a Deluxe), takes pedals super well, keeps up with even loud-ish/loutish drummers, and is so much less £ than any of the boutique alternatives - which generally don't have the Tremolo of the Gods a PR routinely comes with.  I mean, why buy a reissue?
TAD rectifier and 6V6 valves; Mogami reverb send and return cables; excellent unripped tolex; padded Roqsolid all black cover (not shown, but VGC); regularly fettled by valve amp guru, Jon Griffin (Bush Studios); proper 240V export model etc., etc. 
PPG, or cash on collection from central London; will travel to meet up, but really really don't want to courier this gem...


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And finally, when did you last see one of these?  (Yes, I know...but this is the zenith of Leo's silverface design - and the sound I first heard and bonded with in Marin County so many years ago).  Now you can own the dream.

dcg

promotion to the Bump League...two so-near-to-purchase enquirers had my heart racing dangerously, so let's close the sale in the interests of my good health...

ChrisCox1994

looks lovely! but since when did princetons have more headroom than deluxes? I thought the nice thing about them was the underspec'd transformer that breaks up in a nice way earlier on the volume and at a lower SPL? 

My 65 reissue was way louder than my bandmates' princeton 68 and 65 RIs, even with 12s in both, although the princeton sounded nicer to both our ears... 

Not trying to call the seller out or anything just genuinely interested as every princeton I've come across has way less headroom that DRs. 

dcg

Perhaps the two silverface Deluxes I used had less headroom than they should have had!  I guess there is progressive and very musical break up from about 3,5 on the Richter scale on this Princeton - which is pretty loud.  Some people who've heard it have actually mentioned this amp as seeming freakishly loud, hence (I suppose) my remark about the headroom...but the great thing is that it also works beautifully at home levels for those pure Fender clean toned moments...

dcg

to the top, please...

dcg

And once more unto the breach, dear friends...

Jalapeno

@noisepolluter ;

noisepolluter

Jalapeno said:

@noisepolluter ;

Aargh! This would be ideal for me but I just don’t have the wedge yet. 

dcg

Why buy a reissue when you can have this lovely?