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Last year's style dates quickly in clothing terms and it's all about trend
" Boutique" Amps are fashion driven...........the latest wonderful new re-invention the wheel........as soon as the hype dies down so does the price.
............and then the latest "must-have" amp du jour comes along and for 12 months the secondhand prices stay very high
Lazy J anyone ?
I read some where that all Chase Bliss stuff is made out side now and only finished by CB. Seem to recall the same for wampler.
Also now complicated by how many pedals are actually the same box with a different algorithm on the SPIN chip...(keeley?)
I think for many boutique simply means expensive.
This is a USA "boutique" build for a brand already mentioned in this thread, don't buy this crap! most pro-builders can look at this layout and know what the amp is.
Ooo intrigued. Spill!
I remember hearing that a couple of us boutique brands were just production line amps - they probably didn't start that way, but the business expands and they need more production. They share the same factory with loads of other companies.
Is this the amp equivalent of 'gooping'
To be quite honest if someone brought me an amp like that for repair, I would be highly tempted to tell the owner to just send it back to the manufacturer because I can't be bothered working on it, even though I could make good guesses as to what all the values are and measure them if I needed to be sure.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
To be fair I don't actually find Henning *that* annoying, at least in small doses! Not as much as He Who Must Not Be Named anyway .
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
And everybody concerned gets confidence the thing is built properly by trained people who do what they do day in day out. So everybody wins.
Don't like the high prices, don't pay them?
Whether they're right to be concerned about how something is made is another issue, but it is definitely part of the way this sort of stuff is marketed.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein