HiFi system vs Marshall tube amp - not even close!

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Comparing most, or any, HiFi system vs the output of a Marshall 12" speaker tube amp, it is not even close!
 

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The tone has a different quality compared to an ordinary HiFi system.

Of course, there is a lot of hum and buzz, but when played, the sound is in a different league.
 

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You could start a company, with the goal of bringing to market a product that sounds like that but without the clicks and pops. You could dispense with some of the guitar-specific controls, and maybe make the volume remote-controlled. You'd want two for the living room, of course, so you could design twin cabinets. I'm sure once you started testing you would decide that to really be competitive on vocals, you need to add a tweeter of some kind, which means designing a crossover. While designing the crossover and the cabinets, you would run into the problem of beaming from what amounts to a 12" midrange - it won't sound good anywhere in the room except one perfect spot due to poor dispersion. While addressing that, you might find yourself in a debate over making it into a three way...and the Marshall look isn't going down well with your distributors, who need something a little more furniture-like if they want to sell more than a handful, and selling more than a handful sure seems like they only way they are interested in talking to you. By the time your product hits the market, it will be astounding how it looks so much more like the products on this site than a Marshall tube amp.

The good news is that you have a great marketing brochure ready to go. You can write about how this project is the culmination of your life-long search to find that inimitable Marshall sound, and how you couldn't find it in any 'traditional' hifi products on the market. You were 'compelled' to start a journey to the heart of the Marshall tube amp sound and after years of research, a small CNC router, and an intimate space in an industrial estate in Salford, you can finally share the fruit of your labour, which costs £4,850.
 

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SpursGator said:
You could start a company, with the goal of bringing to market a product that sounds like that but without the clicks and pops. You could dispense with some of the guitar-specific controls, and maybe make the volume remote-controlled. You'd want two for the living room, of course, so you could design twin cabinets. I'm sure once you started testing you would decide that to really be competitive on vocals, you need to add a tweeter of some kind, which means designing a crossover. While designing the crossover and the cabinets, you would run into the problem of beaming from what amounts to a 12" midrange - it won't sound good anywhere in the room except one perfect spot due to poor dispersion. While addressing that, you might find yourself in a debate over making it into a three way...and the Marshall look isn't going down well with your distributors, who need something a little more furniture-like if they want to sell more than a handful, and selling more than a handful sure seems like they only way they are interested in talking to you. By the time your product hits the market, it will be astounding how it looks so much more like the products on this site than a Marshall tube amp.

The good news is that you have a great marketing brochure ready to go. You can write about how this project is the culmination of your life-long search to find that inimitable Marshall sound, and how you couldn't find it in any 'traditional' hifi products on the market. You were 'compelled' to start a journey to the heart of the Marshall tube amp sound and after years of research, a small CNC router, and an intimate space in an industrial estate in Salford, you can finally share the fruit of your labour, which costs £4,850.

:)
 

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