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Check out the build quality of Bartel Amps. Mark Bartel has been hand making every part of the amps he designed for over 20 years. He is an EE who makes product decisions based on science - not marketing

https://www.instagram.com/p/BxpP0IugJqZ/?igshid=1gns8qkaz6ou...

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Oh that's just great. So an MSRP of ~ $6375 CAD. They're beautifully done—guess it goes on the bucket list. Here I thought the wiring job on my AC30 was the nicest I'd seen in a long time (http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/ac30hw2_2010.html - also w/ tremolo and spring reverb tank)

I am friend of Mark Bartel and helped him a little with the "wire trees" that he custom molds. I made many suggestions along the lines: "Why don't you just..."

He constitutionally can't - he is the definition of uncompromising. I don't play guitar, but I want to buy one of his amps because of how it is made. Take a look at this:

https://guitar.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/bartel-amplifi...

And every one is exactly the same because he writes and then follows explicit directions for making every connection.

He must have an extraordinary amount of patience!

Doesn't even look like he has any dealers up here—but I was able to find a Premier Guitar demo video from last year's NAMM:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkaCKtUd79M

Didn't realize he was from Tone King previously.

That is a work of art. The cable post and how everything is layed out and tightened down looks fantastic.

I haven't opened my Orange Tremlord. I expect it to look nice, but not nice like this. The Orange Tremlord has a very nice reverb with a real reverb tank. And is imho a very nice amp:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3mc5oZC_vM

I agree the amps are art. Compare the Bartel amp to this

https://www.designboom.com/art/leonardo-ulian-technological-...

- cool, but they don’t work

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