my experience with carvin amps has been that they're not reliable. back in the early 90's i had one of their solid state sx series that crapped out on me. a few years later i took a chance on their mts series...same deal. kept crapping out. sent it to them for repair, got it back saying they found nothing wrong with it. uhg!! BTW- the legacy is nothing but an mts amp w/el34's in it, along with (chinese made) celestion vintage 30's. i actually got one of their sales reps to reluctantly admit that this is true. and they run HOT!!! also, i have their acoustic amp- the green one, ag100d. gues what? that one died too just past the warranty period. with a little pleading, i got them to send me a new one. this one has been fine, but definately built very, very cheaply. buy at your own risk. if you don't need a gazillion channels, i'd recomend instead looking for a used fender prosonic. it has the great fender clean that you'd expect, plus mesa-like gain , or anything in between. you can find these used for around 600, and they're built to last. after all, they were designed in the custom shop when bruce zinky was w/fender. good luck, but if you go w/carvin you're definately rolling the dice.
