Polytone baby brute

Seems to be the 1987model, 8incher combo. Power consumption is100w, so I guess the amp delivers 65w@4ohms, with external 8ohm speaker attached, and about 40w on its own.
Small, black leather(diamond pattern)covered quite cubic (whd28x29x25cms)little amp. Around 11-12kgs, heavy for its size, metal corners are welcome. Long attached power cord, nice.
Controls are: reverb, tandem volume(dist and clean), treble, bass. One low sens and one high sens input jacks. One slider switch for dark, normal, bright sound presets. Everything works extremely well, more on that later.
On the back you'll find: fuse holder, external speaker jack(internal always on), line out jack(doesn't mute the amp, not like most of today's amps) and standard trs jack for remote switching (channel/reverb, any standard latching two button will do).
When overdrive is on, the clean channel still works, quite unusual but it allows interesting settings and you still can turn the clean volume down manually.
Oh, and the mains switch has a third position-reverse- which can be handy if feedback issues with a jazzbox.
Very simple yet complete amplifier, no one will gets lost so let's groove babe... Hats off, Polytone!

Well, that's the real thing, the big daddy of clean amps. Baby or not, it's still a brute...
Full, warm, rich, precise, very round with single notes, the best clean sound is there. The tiny thing produces a lot of bass, not boomy but warm and very musical (try this on a cube6o or line6 haha).
The slider switch lets you use plenty of guitars and styles, and eq controls are very effective while musical.
Musicality is the key word here, and this is what musicians need, not 243channels with a trillion effects and shitty tone. Get it?
Even the overdrive is more than okay, and I was very surprised mind you. Very tubescreamer-like (well I only have the ts7 to compare), smooth and articulate with bass roll-off, nice. No gain setting! Very unusual, but both inputs and your guitar volume pot gets you where you want to, don't worry. Plus the slider switch, quite complete in the end for a fixed-gain only, uh?

Well, first I have to say mine is 20 years old but never took serious abuse other than keyboards by the previous owner.
First the brute has a fairly high noisefloor, a loud hum. Don't know if it was there from the beginning, could be the capacitors.
From time to time the hum goes like crazy and overpowers the rest, repowering the amp solves the problem. Still, you wouldn't want that when playing soft entertainment in a restaurant...
And something else occured, permanent crackling noises, so playing was out of question. I got lucky by swapping the stock speaker for a special disco one, you know they light on when you play and reflects the light like those mirror balls you have in weird places ?? la abba.
So now I can play all day long, no more crackling, and it still sounds awesome. This is the mark of a great amp I can tell you.
In europe no service center, and this very model is quite odd so I really hope it won't fail on me.

Nada nothing rien-du-tout nichts e tutti quanti!
In clear, good luck

Solidly built, cleverly done, tone heaven as far as clean sound goes, usable overdrive to top it off, what more could one ask for?
Well, that Polytone makes them again, and reliable.
Given what Vox and Epiphone are doing now in China with great results and prices, I really want to see Polytone doing the same with their line of awesome amplifiers.
Because there sound quality is still unsurpassed, and their musicality is unique. Musicians needs Polytone, we are now quite forced to buy those cube60 (of very lower sound standards) to play clean and carry light.
Polytone is still in the race, maybe more than before but they don't know it!
Are you listening Polytone? We musicians need you!
I am using this baby brute with a yamaha jazzbox, a p90 les paul flat top, a noiseless strat, an ibanez 7string strat, and an epiphone chet atkins nylon. All of them with very good results, that speaks for the quality of the baby brute or what?
I compared the baby with a cube30, a fender deluxe112, a bassman59, a fender dsp25, a vox vr30 and a peterson guitar special 100. Only the later one can compete with the polytone but it is also a jazz amp and no cheap, and it ain't got that magic the brute has in spades.
If you know a good tech, get one of these baby brutes as soon as you can!