1988 Marshall 2550, JCM 50/ 25W

[Slashwannabe1]

Dude, you scored your VM for under a grand? Awesome. I trolled and trolled for mine but everything from eBay to private sales all came in at a $1k

Yeah It was an amazing find! Forum Member Fortress had bought it brand new and kept it about 3 months and played it a little bit and did one gig with it then he sold it to me on ebay (though I didn't know he was a forum member at the time I bought it.). By the time I got the amplifier through the 2 week shipping from slow ass Canada Express Post it was 4 months old from its manufactured date. I basically tell people I bought it brand new, its got less time on it than a demo amp at Guitar center and it was well taken care of.

Fortress just so happens to be selling another 100 watt VM he bought a month ago for the same price as he sold mine to me for.

The only reason I even considered the Vintage Modern over the Jubilee at the time was because it was brand new and from the clips I'd heard from Slash and from me playing it in the music store side by side with a DSL-100 it blew my mind at how much supirior it was to the DSL-100 and for my ears its basically Jubilee tone but with smoother KT66s instead of the ripping EL-34s. I get that same juicy tone Slash does out of his Jubilees that I've always held as the Gold Standard so all in all I have my dream amp in the VM, but eventually I will rally some cash for a Jubilee.

The Jubilees sounds great on the cleans especially with KT88 Power tubes. Of course everyone knows the EL-34 Dirty tone they have is amazing on them as well.

[woodshed]

Greetings fellow Marshall lovers. The 1987 Silver Jubilee models were continued for about 2-3 years after the actual Silver Jubilee year ended. They were called the Custom Tube series, which is what is pictured in this post. I had one of those Custom Tube 2550 50-watt heads as well as a *real* Silver Jubilee 2553, which is a small head version of the same amp. The 2555 was the 100-watt head version of the Jubilee/Custom Tube series. Joe Bonamassa has some nice clips on youtube demoing his fine sounding Jubilee, among other fine sounding amps.

I wonder how hard it would be to get a circuit board replacement for one of those heads?

[Ex-Mesa]

My brother has a silver Jubilee 2558 combo. I've played his Strat through it (first year Japanese assembly with old stock usa parts). To my pleb ears, it sounds awesome. He says it sounds better in 50W mode, and never uses the 25W; so don't buy it for that feature. From the web: diode rectified power section from the JCM 800 2204; the second channel has a cascaded preamp stage ethat includes a diode clipping circuit for overdrive and added distortion.

[gtrman]

I just got a 2550 a few weeks ago. Came across one and could not resist. I sounds just as expected so I am really happy to add it to my collection.
Looks to be in pretty decent shape. It's the Silver one ...
I will be trying this one out live pretty soon.