Another vote for JTM45.

Kongels wrote:So not to start a panic but are the one's coming to the States all the improved ones?

Apparently not. On at least one other forum, there are many reports from the USA of the rattle issue.

What would really make it for me would be channel-assigned power stage and valve rectifier switching - so it could be a valve-rectified JTM45 on the 'overdrive' channel giving the guitar-controllable compressed distortion and a solid-state rectified JTM100 on the 'clean' channel giving the high hea...

Electro-Voice did discontinue them for a time, but the EVM-12L is available again. They actually have two models—the EVM-12L Classic and the EVM-12L Black Label (Zakk Wylde edition). Don't know much about them, but the Black Label is rated at 300 watts (!).

Bare with me here guys, I can be a little dense at times. So I could just remove the internal speaker cable and then use either the extension speaker jack (for normal use) or the headphone jack for low volume playing with the internal speaker? Just make sure I have the switch in the right position ...

Good to hear. Thanks Steve!

Thanks Steve! I'll probably do just that when I get one. It's not a big deal at all but I'd like to at least try the internal speaker run from the headphone output. Another question for you—on another forum (The Gear Page), two people have reported a rattling noise that they seem to think is coming ...

$400.00 ($360.00 with a 10% GC coupon) 5w combo amp with an out for optional cabs, I wanted Sharks with fricking laser beams but hey, you can't have everything... Should we make a list of things Steve should have done, 15w, 12 inch speaker, better wood, bigger transforrmer whatever and run the cost...

ClubAndCountry nailed it. The hardwired speaker certainly wouldn't keep from buying it, but I'd have preferred a two-jack setup like C&C described. Being able to run the internal speaker through the attenuated headphone output (as with the old Studio 15) could be quite useful.

Thanks Steve, good to know! Is there any reason the internal speaker can't be used this way? Is it simply a matter of the speaker cable being hardwired or not long enough to reach the headphone jack on the back of the amp?

Sounds great—that's more or less what I was hoping for!

Question for you, Steve: how is the G10F-15 voiced? Would you say it is in the direction of a G12M-25, a G12H-30, or something else?

Thanks! I'm looking forward to trying a Class 5 as soon as they arrive here in California.

I have a sneaking suspicion that a Celestion G10 Greenback (or maybe one of the old G10L-35s) would be a great fit for this amp (if the specially-designed G10F-15 isn't to your liking).