Peavey moves to China

[Teleguy61]

The early PV Bandit was a really great ss amp. Maybe the later ones too but I'm just familiar with the early ones. The T40 bass was also quite fine.

+1 on the old Bandit, it worked.
I worked country gigs by the hundreds in the 80s, and it was all Peavey
equipment, us and every other band out there.
Same deal, not the greatest, it worked, throw it in the truck at the end of the gig, pull it out the next night, it worked.
Too bad, I think the 21st century caught up with Hartley Peavey.
The TV show and this-he doesn't come out smelling like a rose.

[Reeltarded]

For every amazing thing they designed they made $50k worth of worthless junk to poorly market along with it then they bought external brands for a premium during a bubble.

Seeing a company go down in flames makes me feel good. It's natural. It's not too big to fail.

Governments creating a global fudalism really fucking pisses me off.

Best sound I ever had was a bartolini tube it driving a twelve times thrown thomas organ wha wha at full treble pushing a peavey stereo chorus 210 amp. The secret is the microphony of the wha wha and the ts on the amp set full bass with no mids or treble.

[Structo]

I heard they were aiming for transparency but this is ridiculous.

[roberto]

Governments creating a global fudalism.

Funny. I've used the exact same words few days ago talking about the same matter.

[TUBEDUDE]

Had an old classic 30. It sounded good after replacing the.speaker, tubes and modding the crap out of it. Horrible construction with solid wire jumpers bent 90 degrees. PV equipment was generally regarded as reliable, with mediocre sound at lower cost. Many bands through this area had contract riders that forbade using PV in the PA or backline.

[67plexi]

They made good equipment in the 70's made to last.
Last week I had 12 China made amps on my bench what trash
the customer is lucky to get a year of service before the main board
goes up in smoke. I repaired all of them and they ask me how do you think it sounds then I let them play my mega-plx amp
It did gross me out looking at that China crap in my shop.
If that's the wave of the future I'm going acoustic.

[RWood]

I've sent them a boycott Email. Any person from any country that gets screwed by corporate penny pinchers sending their countries' jobs to China of all places should do the same.
People say that boycotting does no good, but that would not be the case if everyone did it. My conscience is now clear.

[cbass]

From what i could tell they left manufacturing here as long as they could.

[schaublin65]

Hi,

http://www.clarionledger.com/story/busi ... /26124435/

A link to a news report that the Mississippi plant may not be closing?

From the GroupDIY forum.

take care..

John