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Originally Posted by TexasFM3
Wow... I feel like I opened a can of worms... It seems that both are decent amps... This is what I had a feeling on. I just needed to confirm that I was not a lunatic on maybe choosing a really wrong one over a really right one for this price.
FM3
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I would make sure that you have an affinity for the tone and character of sound of the JCM 900--which for some is
fine, for others
not so fine. (There isn't that much flexibility with the JCM 900, so you tend to either like it or not.) Everyone's aesthetic preferences are going to be at least a little different from someone else's, so your ears and your tweaking-fingers are your best friends in making such an important decision.
The discontinued 65-watt JCM 2000 I find to be my favorite of the recent Marshall amps--even over some
current Marshall amps that cost a great deal more than it did. But, alas, Marshall discontinued the 65-watt option for the JCM 2000. (My theory is that Marshall was onto this much more affordable option being qualitatively superior in some ways to the current top-of-the-line amps, and they thus gave it the nix in favor of only
one option: the more expensive 100-watt JCM 2000 with a new-fangled auto-adjusting power circuit. Why not offer both?) Whatever the case, I find the 65-watt JCM 2000 to be the "King Bee" of that particular line: It has just the right amount of Marshall honk while offering also both unique character and a rich palette of tones.