Just checking the Andertons Website at the moment.
You get the Bassbreaker at £399, which is not really a Fender Sounding amp, but ol from a price performance point of view
Then you get the Pro Jnr (just Volume and tone) at £499, then the Blues Jnr at £569.
You get far more amp for your money from the likes on Laney/Blackstar/Vox
You can even get a Koch for £439 and PRS at £599
Having owned a Pro Jnr in the past (which I now regret selling), I thought about getting a new small amp with 10" or 12" for dem pure tones when I can't be bothered to with Helix.
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Pro Jr - 15W, one basic channel - £489
Blues Jr - 15W, one channel, basic boost, reverb - £589
Hotrod Deluxe - 40W, two channels, proper boost, reverb, FX loop - £749.
The Hotrod is even built better. Aside from pure portability I have no idea why anyone would spend three quarters of the money for about a third of the amp.
"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
- I can easily carry the amp in one hand and my guitar in the other
- it has a very small footprint, which is a big bonus in some of the smaller rehearsal rooms I've used
I actually quite like the Pro Junior, but really it's a 250 quid amp at best.
Their big margins will be on their DSP and class D amps as this tech is mass produced very cheaply. Probably cost more to make the cabinet than the electronics.
Joe Bonamassa stockpiling of equipment is driving up the prices of used kit.
I imagine that some of what one is paying for though is the iconic looks of the amp - I think that they're all made in the same factory with the same labour cost and with PCBs. Please do correct me if I'm wrong.
I tried a blues junior when they were on offer and it sounded pretty gross in comparison to the 65 prince reissue
They are nice amps, but I could never get along with them, found them much too noisy for me and at the price they are I didn't feel it was worth putting the work into modding them to work a little better, but a lot of people will do that. Even stock though they have a decent enough tone.
Still over priced.
https://soundcertified.com/speaker-ohms-calculator/
But the Princeton does cost twice as much....
The best I've heard is actually a Blues Jr with a replaced 5E3-sized pine/tweed cabinet and Jensen speaker, in fact - but those have design faults too... the worst of which principally causes a tendency to set fire to themselves .
By comparison the Hotrod and Blues Deluxes have very few faults - Fender have actually made improvements to them over the years that they haven't with the smaller ones.
"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
I put a Celestion Blue in a Blues Jr once, had to take the bell off the back of the speaker to make it fit but it was a pretty significant improvement. A lot of that amp's issues are in the stock speaker IMO. I mean, there are more problems than just that (I have since moved it on!) but the difference was not small.