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UPDATE: the amp is on eBay now, here: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150863038767 - I'd much prefer to sell it here though!!! ;)
This amp has been a bit of a project for the last few months, and its now really quite wonderful! Unfortunately, as lovely as it sounds and as much as I've fallen for the unique mix of reverb & bias trem, it just can't hang with my band, need to move on to something louder. I've got a chance to snag a friend's Super Reverb, so I'm offering this up!
Its a '73 Princeton Reverb. Came to me pretty much original. Faceplate is nice & clean, tolex & hardware are all fine, couple small tears/dings/etc. that you'd expect in a "normal" SF amp. One little bonus is the tiny badge added by the music shop in Illinois where the amp was original sold - "Don's Music Land, Ltd." Too cool! The market for Princeton Reverbs has been going crazy in the last couple years & this one is a perfect example of a player's amp that sounds better than a lot of the more expensive all original/BF amps. I've got several speakers to play with, the best of which, by a mile, is a mid '60s Jensen C10N that was recently reckoned by Weber - the big "N" magnet is a perfect match for the amp & totally delivers well beyond what the stock speaker was capable of. I love that its a fresh cone & I can play loud w/o any fear of blowing the original! I have a few other nice speakers that could be included instead, depending on what you're after & how much you'd like to spend. . .
The reverb tank was dead when I got it, its been sent out to the folks who originally build the Accutronics tanks in Illinois before the brand was bought & production was sent overseas - the original tank came back sounding perfect, their service wasn't cheap, but is HIGHLY recommended.
The preamp tubes are a mix of nice ANOS American glass, the power tubes are a new set of JJs 6V6s - I believe I have the GEs that came in the amp, but to my ears the JJs were a nice improvement - made the amp bigger & meatier!
Lastly, while I'm not an amp tech, I'm pretty handy, so I've gone through & done a lot of "tune-up" work on the amp. Pots & jacks cleaned, replaced the cap can (Mallory) & all coupling caps (Atoms), later went through & replaced a lot of the "brown turd" signal caps with Mallory 150s. Also replaced all the usual "trouble-maker" resistors. Some of the lead dress wasn't great - typical SF stuff - so I've gone through & tided things up including correcting some mis-wiring of the heater wires. Each step has shown an appreciable improvement & the amp now idles quiet & has very respectable output for a small amp!!!
Update: I had noted in the original post that the amp felt a little "loose" when cranked & hit with a heavy pick attack. I've finally sorted that - was due to a dirty treble pot! 
SO - I'd like to get $1100 shipped with the C10n + stock speaker. If you'd like ONLY the stock speaker, I'd do $950 shipped - the C10N was a pretty special find & I've got some $$$ tied up in it!
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