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It’s a Hiwatt DR-103
Loud, clean with front panel switch to link the treble & bass inputs. This amp was made in the USA in Westbury NY, at the shop where Unicord was having the UK imported Marshall amps serviced, biased and fitted with 6550 output tubes.
I replaced the 45 year old filter caps in this amp along with a few other electrolytics and found it to be head to head with my Hiwatt DR103 and DR201 amps. It’s heavy due to a pair of massive Hammond transformers. This and the matching 6x12 Rola loaded cab are an easy 2 person lift, hopefully your bass player owns an SVT and owes you a favor at load in. All said, along with the Rickenbacker Transonic it is one of the most visually stunning amps ever made, and not hard to understand how these quickly made it on to the backlines of Led Zeppelin, Stevie Wonder and Jeff Beck in 1972.
