Hi everyone, my first post on the forum.
I have MA 100 watt combo and I love it, sounds incredible on gain channel pushed with Boss SD-1 overdrive + SG humbuckers and I am in heaven.
But, I do have some issues that are annoying, it has serious tube rattle. I have tried 3 amps in shop every had rattle,some more some less, even smaller 50C combo. Depends on what you play and volume, mostly on lower notes it just rattles as cabinet full of glasses,very annoying when playing at home on clean channel. Guy at shop took of tubes,rattle stopped, popped new ones, same thing, rattle comes in.
And another thing, as soon as I engage standby button ON, there is a weird hum from the amp, sounds almost like something is cookin inside, hard to describe,if you ever heard a gas flame oven thats the sound,just cooking there. Its there all the time, regardless of volume settings and it is annoying at low volumes really, tried again few amps all have same thing, and I am not sure is this normal for all MA amps or am I really a guy with bad luck? Guys at the shop are confused too, and cooking sound is getting louder with time. I thought amp should be dead silent with slight hum that increases with volume, but this is different.
I really like MA series ,sound,the looks and feel,but this small things are really annoying.