Just to show how lucky all you younger players are today with the fabulous features of a Valvetronix , this was my very first guitar amp - a Triumph Leo 7w with a 12" eliptical speaker. I had one of these in 1972 albeit the cloth was silver grey. Look at the price (at the bottom) then, & compare that to a VT15 now & what you get for your money.... & what I got for mine!!
http://www.chambonino.com/work/miscguitar/misc13.html
Hard to believe that these practice amps are now highly collectible, simply because they were all-valve - even though they were considered pretty 'basic & ordinary' in their day! No way to distort the amp save cranking it. I used to crank the amp & put it face down on my bed to get a distortion! Had to be resourceful in them days! lol
Funny how things go full circle though, with manufacturers now going back to making low wattage all-valve amps just like this eg the AC4, and that today if I still had the Leo, it would be considered a great home practice amp.
Rich
