80s carvin x amps, anyone have any experience?

[mlove3]

looking at a couple on ebay, the x100 looks like an exact boogie clone.

[Steve Conner]

There was a guy on the forum called BackwardsBob who was obsessed with these amps. He collected them and owned about 10. I don't know if he's still around, but you could search the forum for his previous posts, there was a good deal of technical discussion of the amps in them. The gist of it, if I remember right, was that they could be picked up pretty cheap, sounded good stock, and were good platforms for modding.

[reverendbk]

I own an '81 X60 (1x12 EV SRO), and have used an x100 2x12 (eminence wizards.)
The former was modded to a blackface style with the extra gain stage after the EQ. The latter was stock.

Both of these amps were very articulate in the treble register, and the graphic EQ is very well voiced. The stock one had a better overdrive sound, and it was dramatically shaped by the EQ. Not as coherent on complex chords like a boogie though.
The half power mode simply drops the B+ to the PI, reducing headroom there.

They sound good clean with pedals, or cranked master all the way.
For about $200, you can't miss, and if you find one with an SRO in like I did thats worth it alone.

It is a PC board but it's the old school kind with huge traces.