Princeton Reverb

Anyone here have/used extensively a silverface Princeton, been seeing them around 6-700 bucks and im thinking about picking one up as a garage/bedroom double duty amp, how loud do they get compared to the drri or ac15??

the 'reissue' SF or an original 70s one?

the new ones have less headroom than most blackfaced examples from the 60s, the old ones have a smidge more headroom in general. All VERY similar. A princeton reverb is more like a tweed tremolux than a deluxe reverb... an ac15 is cathode biased and its closer to a tweed deluxe in feel, but more refined and less greasy. they are about the same overall volume as an ac15. Very close. The vox might be a smidge louder and projects better with a 1x12 or 2x12 standard, kinda sits between a PR and DR.

I've owned and used Princetons and Princeton reverbs from the brown, black and silver eras. The biggest difference is teh change from brown to black, after that they're pretty consistent. The silverfaces with the push/pull gain boost are even very similar as long as you ignore the gain boost (which sucks). The amp really didn't change much over the years. All of the old tube charts call for a 5U4 rectifier but msot blackfaces left the factory with a 5AR4 (GZ34) baised up to go with that tube whereas the silverfaces mostly had 5U4s stock as indicated on the charts and the bias always tended to be hot from the factory to make them cleaner. The only other notable difference in non boost versions was in pats layout, some caps were moved around to try to reduce ghost notes and squealing at high volume, although i have no diea why because I've enver encountered a well-maintained vintage princeton that oscilated or produced ghost notes... princetons are great amps with or without reverb,. I actually liek teh overall sound and feel of non-reverb princetons a little better. The reverb models tend to feel a little hotter but also sound a little blurry next to a non-reverb of the same vintage. Although i grew up on a 64 PR so I have a lot of affection for that particular reverb and bias vary trem sound that they do. Nothing else does that in the fender line. All the other bias vary trem amps lack reverb and all the otehr reverb amps use the LDR circuit like on the super and twin. Neither of the reissues sound the same to me. They're just kidna off. Out of the 2 options the recent silver one soudns better. Neither is BAD though. Its just that the old oens used to eb cheap in the 90s before they caught on and I played so many and owned a bunch and Ic an tell you they sound better across the baord, any year.