Marshall Class 5 Combo

5 watt all tube pure Marshall Combo with headphone out and speaker out. Volume, Bass, Mid, Treble, Input and on/off switch. Switch for headphone/speaker so the speaker is off when switched to headphone.. Fairly small combo that's easy to carry. For what it is.....it's perfect! Now for versatility look at it this way. 1. It's old
school Marshall with very clean tone at low guitar volume and full on ripping Plexi at full throttle. 2. It's a small
combo so you can take it anywhere, play it with headphones, jam with friends or just kick back at home and play to the radio. 3. Plug it into a 4x12 cabinet when you want to hear the real beauty of it's Marshall tone with more volume for small intimate gigs or just jamming. 4. Run the headphone jack out into your power amps and
bigger speakers for full on stage shows. 5. Stratocaster or Les Paul or whatever you have choices in very different sounds.

In the store I thought it was sort of dull with an Epiphone explorer, the stock speaker and no effects. I actually didn't really turn it up past about 4 and it was just starting to roar. I left the store and my subconscious mind kept telling me there was something special about that amp. Being in the market for a low watt, bedroom, Marshall I went back at the end of the day and just bought it. Now at home I have a Les Paul standard, a Stratocaster an effects processor, mixer, Sure sm57 mic and a 4x12 with Greenbacks, JTM45 blaa blaa blaa...........I rigged it all up and OMG!!!

This is all I have to say: I love Marshalls old and new and I've owned several over the years. This Class 5 is Jim Marshalls new age crown jewel. It's genius that the baby boomers that demand perfect tone in their little bedroom studios get offered this little jem. Perfect timing Jim and THANK YOU!

It's true, plug it into a 4x12, crank this little amp to about 7 and turn your guitar volume down low. You will get Eric Johnson cleans ALL DAY LONG with a strat, chorus, delay, reverb. Roll your guitar volume up and hold on for the '72 Plexi Roar! At 5 watts and 1 EL84 it does not fill the room with big bass like a 50 or 100 watter
but it is pure rich Marshall tone and plenty loud. Next to a rock drummer it would barley hang on but for an all tube, bedroom or recording studio Marshall there is nothing that can touch this.
Sound Quality gushes from this amp.

Don't know yet. 5 year warranty. I'm sure it would be simple to fix if broke

Never dealt with them.

I have played rock guitar since the Beatles. Again I love Marshall amps and this new Class 5 is my pride and joy. At about $365.00 out the door you get the best of the best in tube tone. This is an amp that a guitar player will never part with as it could never be replaced. I'm gonna buy a back up in case this one get's stolen. You think I'm kidding? :)

It's a brand new all-valve combo, made in England 2009. The features are as basic ans you can think of.
Class A single ended power amp (1xEL84), 5 Watts, single channel, Volume knob and Marshall's traditional tone stack with Bass, Middle and Treble. No Reverb, no Master volume (it could make sense to have it, since this baby has a loud growl). There's no Stand-by switch (and that's -1 at rating)and no FX loop (I don't care since I don't use effects). On the back panel there's an output jack for an extension cabinet and a headphone jack socket (that's really useful if you want to practice with this little monster without upsetting your neighbourhood: this amp is mean loud!) and the 10" speaker.
It looks Vintage Marshall all the way, with top mounted controls and Bluesbreaker style cabinet. Last, but not least, its weight is 12Kg, so it's easily carried anywhere without breaking your back!
I tested it for an hour at the shop and was impressed by the volume and the character of this beast; then I decided to buy it and last night I had a rehearsal with my band: I couldn't believe what I heard (see below, in the Sound section)... Anyway, it's got enough volume even for small club gigging and if you play on a larger stage you just have to mic' it up!
It's a One Trick Pony, but a great one!

I play Blues, Country and Southern Rock and use only humbucker equipped guitars (Duncan 59 neck and Duncan Custom bridge). Setting all the amp controls at 12 o'clock it growls out that Billy Gibbons sound (think of Lagrange, Just got paid); turnig the Volume knob past 2 o'clock it roars like a Plexi, with a big, tasty and full of sustain sound... But te best note is that if you roll off your guitar volume (even with high output humbuckers) the sound cleans up very well, allowing your right hand fingers to become kind of a channel switch...
It sounds 110% Marshall, so if you're after a tweed chimey clean or a Rectifier distorsion you better look elsewhere; but if you love Classic Rock (Zeppelin, VH, AC-DC) or Southern Rock (Lynyrd, ZZ, Allman) this is perfect!
You can desume it's prfect for me...

Too soon to tell. I had many Marshalls before and they never let me down, with the only exception of a 1974x. I'll carry my backup for the first gigs, then I'll see.

I never dealt with them.

I've been playing for a long time, gigging out regularly since 1982.
I have 2 self assembled Strat-ish guitars (one is solid alder body with spalt maple drop top, the other is chambered mahogany with flame maple top, both they have birdseye maple neck with rosewood fingerboard) and a PRS SE Singlecut. All three of them have the same Humbuckers, the alder strat has a Kinman in the mid position (H-S-H).
I have a Laney L5T-112 (great amp!) and a 1987 JCM800 4210 combo (excellent amp, solid as a rock, but also as heavy!), which is gonna be replaced by the Class 5.
I never found an amplifier so big sounding being so small and light.
I tried many other amps in this cathegory (VOX TV4, Brunetti Single Man, THD Univalve, Orange Tiny Terror) and none of them comes even close to the sound of the Class 5. I still love my Laney, that's much more versatile (and still is the 10 for me), but I really think it's a wonderful amp.