Product: Harmony H303
Price Paid: US $99 used
Submitted
10/08/1998
at
07:34pm
by
Rick Alles
Email: 102771 dot 3330<at>compuserve dot com
Features
:
1
The features were minimal back in 1960. Just a chicken-head volume knob that also serves as the on-off switch. Okay, it does have two inputs...
Sound Quality
:
8
This Chicago-made amp with a Chicago-made Jensen Special Design 6" speaker is great at producing that dark, late night Chicago blues sound of the Fifties. The sound is a little on the bassy side, but I play a Tele, so you know I've got treble covered. You dime the volume and soar on the sweet breakup of the three tubes and the Alnico magnet. Sometimes there is a sense that the amp hasn't quite recovered from a fast riff and there is a wonderful anarchic blurring of sounds. Purity, 0, Soul 10.
Reliability
:
No Opinion
Brand new to me, but the speaker code is from March 1960--it is remarkably noise-free and clean after 38 years. I'd never trust it to a roadie, 'cause he might drop it while he was laughing.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Oh, please. The schematic is posted on the inside wall, however.
Overall Rating
:
8
I've been playing the blues for fun and beer money for 30+ years, and I'm pretty much a bedroom rocker these days. This amp is a fun, Champ-like screamer that has a ton of character and lets me wail, but still hear when the UPS man rings the doorbell. A perfect unit for the aging baby boomer who has rockin' in his heart but a mortgage to support.
