Ibanez tsa5 TVR

chris77

Cute as a button.

I can see myself getting one of these.....

http://www.ibanez.co.jp/products/u_amp_page14.php?year=2014&cat_id=5&series_id=141&ampl_id=5

studmissile

great looking amp, not too sure about the legs

guitarboy2828

Oh my goodness, yes! That looks amazing!
Sounds so good!

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chris77

studmissile wrote: great looking amp, not too sure about the legs

He-he, that's one of the things I like most about it ?

I love these retro looking amps and have it in my head to build something similar one of these days.

Here's another one, albeit a tad more expensive...

The Tone King Galaxy.

http://www.toneking.com/models/galaxy/

IceCreamMan

I like it....very sweet.

guess with the success of Fender with the pawn shop series of amps other makers are taking note

giggsy

Nice, retail locally about R4k I'd assume?

beardedmoose

I like it

NorioDS

So cute and it sounds pretty sweet too!

I've been hankering for a tube amp... maybe this one'll get me to pull the trigger?

funkadelic

Ok I don't get it why someone would buy a 5 watt amp. Having said that it's weird that this small amp seem to have better features than its bigger brothers (TSA15/30). Taliking about the special speaker and reverb tank. Actually I've been waiting for the TSA30 head version to arrive in the country or an upgrade to the TSA30. Guess I'm too new to tube amps to appreciate the retro looks ?

NorioDS

funkadelic wrote: Ok I don't get it why someone would buy a 5 watt amp.

For me it's about getting an organic sound without making too much noise.

I almost exclusively play at home. A more powerful amp would be wasted on me.

ezietsman

I don't agree with these Ibanez amp designs. Power section too clean for a start. That said, I do agree with the existence of 5 watt amps. Play one through a reasonably efficient speaker (Greenback 97dB and up) and they are plenty loud enough, hell, I've gigged my HT5 and that is a 5 watt with a 93dB speaker. The downside is that most of these single valve single-ended amps don't really have the same nice power tube distortion characteristics their push-pull brethren has.

Sean

Norio wrote: ......A more powerful amp would be wasted on me.

On most

beardedmoose

funkadelic wrote: Ok I don't get it why someone would buy a 5 watt amp. Having said that it's weird that this small amp seem to have better features than its bigger brothers (TSA15/30). Taliking about the special speaker and reverb tank. Actually I've been waiting for the TSA30 head version to arrive in the country or an upgrade to the TSA30. Guess I'm too new to tube amps to appreciate the retro looks ?

Micro tube amps are a hell of a thing my man. I have a Blackstar HT20 Studio for stage use but at home and in the studio i use the HT5R.. a hell of a thing. you can get tube saturation at lower volumes my man.

funkadelic

Next time I go to a music shop I'm gonna make sure I try out a 5 watt tube amp. Very interesting indeed.