A friend was gonna toss this amp because, "it just doesn't work." Turns out the speaker was DOA. Played it thru a 15" bass speaker rated at 120 Watts for a test and it sounds great. Clean & drive channels with spring reverb. Drips of the Fender sound.
However, I'm a tube amp snob with 2 Fender tube amps playing in a jazz trio (private bookings) and a five-piece prog rock band (public beer guzzlin' joints).
Strat, Epiphone Casino & Alvarez electric acoustic. I probably won't keep the Princeton 65 but you never can tell. I do want it to sound good even if it's used for trade fodder. Recommendations from guitar buddies that play SS amps included a couple of Jensons and 2 from WGS. One used two G12C's in a cab and loved them. One guy was crazed. He said don't think about it, go to this site, order the ET65, play for a couple of hours and call him to say Thank You. Strong recommendation and after listening to clips of 6 different WGS speakers, I think he's right.
Anyway, they say she comes on a pale horse but, I'm sure I hear an ET65 in this amp's future.
Thought...Help? Does a solid-state amp need more headroom with a higher wattage speaker?
Thanks,
Colin
Hope you already went for the ET65 .... that's definitely the perfect choice here :)