On , Duncan Markley wrote to Mark Vansickle :
 DM> The 900's don't sound too bad to me, but if you look at the internals
 DM> (as with every major amp manufacturer today) they had to make them
 DM> cheaper to compete, and unfortunately they went to pcb-mounted tube
 DM> sockets and pots.  The 900 has a particularly wimpy output transformer
 DM> that is rather infamous for going up in smoke under professional use.
 DM> BTW, I recently auditioned the new JCM2000 and it's not my cup of tea,
 DM> either.  The clean sound is good for a Marshall, though...
       What kind of guitar did you run through them? If I remember correctly, 
you're favoring Tele's lately, right?
       Oddly enough, I played a 900 series with 5881s in it... It actually 
sounded OK, but was a bit to high in the treble range. I killed the presence 
and the treble, cranked the midrange and put the bass up a bit and I was in 
Marshall heaven. I had very thick, but still somewhat jangly, tones with my 
#1 Strat. I ran that thing from a quiet whisper to rumbling rhythms to 
screaming leads. At points I had controlled feedback and sustain like I've 
never heard before. I wanted to brin the thing home and replace the tubes 
with some EL84s (is that the 5881 sub?)... Unfortunately, it belongs to Star 
Trax... :/
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