Canard
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There was a old Magnatone in a (VOP - very over priced) vintage guitar shop here a few years back. I plugged in a drool-worthy old X-500 (one that I had no business touching, since I really could not even afford to look at its price tag). The amp had a lovely, if unexceptional, clean tone for Jazz. It did not seem voluntarily inclined to any kind of dirt. I did not try the vibrato. On a purely utilitarian basis, it seemed vastly, vastly, vastly overpriced. You could get a much more versatile new boutique amp with a warranty instead and still have some change left over.
A short while after I tried it, a very Greg-Leisz-like player plugged into it and played some frighteningly good outside-ish blues through it on a vintage Fender pedal steel, one of the big ones. The sales person asked him what he thought of the gear. He said, "Guitar - great. Amp - not much."
This is the sum total of my Magnatone experience for what little it is worth.
A short while after I tried it, a very Greg-Leisz-like player plugged into it and played some frighteningly good outside-ish blues through it on a vintage Fender pedal steel, one of the big ones. The sales person asked him what he thought of the gear. He said, "Guitar - great. Amp - not much."
This is the sum total of my Magnatone experience for what little it is worth.