Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo

75lespaul

75lespaul

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I have the opportunity to get a Marshall Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo for $1250. Is it worth it? I know the guy, so he's willing to let me give him $800 now and pay him off the rest. The tolex is okay, a few tears here and there but no big chunks missing. I just don't know the value of these amps and don't wanna get ripped. I'm planning on keeping it for many years because of the collectibility as well, so if I'm paying a bit of a premium, I'm cool with that. I just don't wanna pay $1200 if the current value is 8 or $900.

Thanks guys.

EDIT: it's a 1987 model 2558
 
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Re: Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo

Good luck. I'm not a Marshall guy (I play mostly alt country) but I played one of those when they were new and it was the best heavy music type amp I ever heard.
 
Re: Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo

do it do it do it now!!!! you won't regret it one bit
1.) its a great sounding marshall
2.) anything jubilee related is a gold mine
 
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A few years ago, they were worth $800-900. $1200 sounds about right, although I'd see if he'd take $1000 because of the tolex issues. It's really hard to find clean ones these days, but Jubilees will always hold their value and go up.

Make sure you play it, and determine if you like it though. Jubilees are great sounding amps, which are basically highgain JCM 800's. The clean channels are actually pretty nice too. With JJ E-34L's biased around 38mA, and fresh pre tubes, they sound even better than they did new. In 87, they shipped with Siemens tubes, which I always thought were great tubes, but I've compared them directly to JJ's, and think the JJ's are even better. And I made that comparison in the Jubilee.
 
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Well, I'm gonna go check it out later this morning. He's pretty firm on $1250. I'm not worried too much about the tone as I'm getting this as more of an investment, but I dig Slash's tone and I heard another guy many years ago using one of these and his sound was killer. He was just plugged straight into the amp as well.
 
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Well I got it. Tolex is filthy, gotta clean it. Coupla scratchy pots and some tubes I don't like. The tolex imo is pretty good. About a four inch seperation right where the top meets the back of the amp and another smaller than a dime on the bottom. Even with the tubes the amp sounds mean. I tried it out with my Jackson SL-3 with the Dimarzio SD bridge and it sounded wicked. Next will be with my Les Pauls, one with an Ant and the other with the Brobucker. Fun's a coming!

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If you want to hear that thing smoke, put in some Shuguang 9th Generation 12AX7's, and then make a speaker cable that connects to it's speaker cables, and run it into a 4-12 cab. A cranked Jubilee into 1 or 2 4-12's is about as good as it gets for highgain Marshall tone.

With Jubilees, I always suggest an Alesis Nanoverb, or other multiFX unit with a send, mix, and return. You can dial in the amp incredibly, and control the volume with the FX's output....plus a little reverb. It makes using my Jubilee a joy in an environment, where I want big tone at reasonable levels.
 
Re: Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo

Gearjoneser said:
If you want to hear that thing smoke, put in some Shuguang 9th Generation 12AX7's, and then make a speaker cable that connects to it's speaker cables, and run it into a 4-12 cab. A cranked Jubilee into 1 or 2 4-12's is about as good as it gets for highgain Marshall tone.

With Jubilees, I always suggest an Alesis Nanoverb, or other multiFX unit with a send, mix, and return. You can dial in the amp incredibly, and control the volume with the FX's output....plus a little reverb. It makes using my Jubilee a joy in an environment, where I want big tone at reasonable levels.
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Where can you get those tubes? The amp actually has speaker outs, so I can hook it up to a cab with a regular amp cable. I was actually going to hook it up to the 4X12 today, but I can't imagine it sounding much better. It REALLY kicked once I set the levels right. Gain all the way up was too muddy. At about 2 or 3 o'clock it got that great late 80s really gainy--dare I say Slash?--distortion. At lower volumes it sounds kind of solid state like, but with the volume anywhere from 1/2 to 3/4, wow!
 
Re: Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo

Do a search on Ebay for Shuguang 12AX7. Sometimes, they sell for $5 a piece, and they're basically the same as GT12AX7C's.

The Jubilee has plenty of gain, but you're right....7 is where the gain has plenty of chunk and sustain, but it's still defined.
I think mine is set like this. P5, B10, M6, T5, V4-6, V6-7, G4-8.

That's cool that you can plug it into a 4-12. You'll dig it.
 
Re: Silver Jubilee 2X12 combo

Congrats bro and welcome to the club!! :fing2:

One of the great things about Jubilees is they're not too loud - you can get a 50 watt up to 7 for a pub gig, so the tubes are getting pushed.

Anyway, great excuse to post my 2553 + 2556B - same amp, different format...


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