A 50s Bassman in volume 4 is really pretty LOUD. In the 50s the pots audio taper was different so that the volume came up very quickly. This just incorrect, What I was noticing was the potentiometers. I previously quoted that I thought my Victoria 45410 was underpowered. I also own two Clark amps and one Victoria and one Tungsten amp in addition to many old Fenders. That is the honest assessment from this 64 year old weekend warrior guitar player who has played 2 + nights a week with old Fender amps since the 1960's. It has the sound of the old Fender tweed amps. The amp's build quality was very good as well. It may not have the most popular flavor of the month reissue "vintage correct tone caps", but that new Mercury Magnetics output transformer has everything going on that the old Triad transformers had. The distortion was very smooth when cranked. Well I must say, it sounded like we had one of my old 1950's Fender amps. We then put some (VERY well broken in) Weber 10A125-O speakers. It sounded pretty good with stock RI Jensen (F) speakers.to my surprise.
We put in a NOS JAN Philips 5U4 rectifier with NOS Raytheon long black plate 12AX7's across the board. We retubed it with original 1950's NOS Tung Sol 5881 tubes and removed the tube cage. He payed about $2500, no sales tax and I understand shipping was about $30. I played a new Bandmaster last weekend that my friend ordered online. A new Victoria would probably cost as much (or more?) than the new Fender. While the quoted statement statement is technically correct, it would be more equitable to compare new prices to new prices, and used to used. To be fair, if you waited until there are some used '57 reissue Fender Bandmasters on ebay, they would probably sell for about the same as the used Victoria.
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