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I paid $550 CDN for my Garnet Sessionman head which I consider quite fair considering how well it's made and how good it sounds. I have seen the occasional Sessionman combo on my local Craigslist for around $450 - 600.

My friend is selling a Garnet Session Man combo.No details I can remember. I have played it fine.I am thinking about it.How much should it cost?

Garnet has a listing of the results of every Garnet amp that's been listed on eBay in the past 9 years. You might wanna take a look.http://garnetamps.com/auctions.htmThe last session man that sold was in June, went for $575 in July, and one before that for $525 in June. The feature set, and whether it's a head or a combo, seems to dictate the price a bit, too. Hell, it's worth whatever you think it's worth. I paid over $700 for my Garnet (granted it's a very rare model) and wouldn't take it back for anything. I love it.

I paid $500 Canadian for my Session Man combo and feel I got a fair deal.

Fuck dude, i'd love to find one, the Session Man is great and has great tweakability. 500-600 seems like the range, but if your friend wants more than that, maybe 700 or whatever--and depending on the condition--you may well be advised to pay more, because Garnets are getting rarer and rarer, it's getting to the point where you're just getting lucky to find one being sold at all. I spoke to Gar here about a month before he passed away. Part of the reason I think that Garnets will go way up as they were even before his passing, is because he's no longer able to work on them or service them, himself. He still did repairs and would upgrade the caps and some circuitry to bring them into the modern age with slight improvements. He knew and understood those circuits better than anyone else.

Ryan Electrocution wrote:Fuck dude, i'd love to find one, the Session Man is great and has great tweakability.Dude.You are making me reconsider the whole thing. I want to try to come up with my own, which is a stupid idea, but then I can build it to fix it, which is another stupid idea. At least it will sound bad?Maybe someone else could get more out of this amp. I am not interested in half it, I realize now.

Hosoi wrote:Ryan Electrocution wrote:Fuck dude, i'd love to find one, the Session Man is great and has great tweakability.Dude.You are making me reconsider the whole thing. I want to try to come up with my own, which is a stupid idea, but then I can build it to fix it, which is another stupid idea. At least it will sound bad?Maybe someone else could get more out of this amp. I am not interested in half it, I realize now.I'd pick it up, if for only the fact that it would be a good investment that would inevitably appreciate with time. There would be no shortage of interest from buyers when the time came, if you did need to sell. I haven't seen a Session Man around here in ages--in the used ads, or the used equipment stores. And i'm from Winnipeg, where these things were built! I advise anyone anywhere, to pick up a Garnet, wherever the amps have migrated to, because the chance to actually try them out before buying them off of EBay is getting rarer. I mentioned this before, but a used equipment dealer here told me that maybe 10-20 years ago, he had a store full of old Garnets, couldn't give 'em away!, now he rarely sees them, and they're always of interest when they are around. So, take that for what it's worth. My buddy lives just down the street from where Gar had his shop for years, Eel Electronics. It's old and looks as though it's boarded up and not used...it's not in the best area of town, either.

Hosoi, you've always been a force to be reckoned with, and the master of the odd post. But this right here is whole nother level. Salut!

Hi, Nerds,I bought this amp, and I also got another one. This one is great. Best thing that ever happened to me.That one is problematic. Out of all the nerds I know and all the nerds I've paid, none of them can figure it out.Their problem is that they input a sine wave at 50 or 75 watts or whatever, and it doesn't fail after hours and hours, so they all say there's nothing wrong. It's not a heat problem, I guess?By my problem is if I play through it, it fails. Sometimes it works, but not for long. It sounds almost like radio static, and the power, like volume power, fades. Then there's nothing. If I try it again in a few days, sometimes it works and then the same thing happens, and sometimes it doesn't work at all.So maybe it's the speakers' fault? It's the 4x12 combo.I long to be a nerd!

numberthirty wrote:Hosoi wrote:Hi, Nerds,I bought this amp, and I also got another one. This one is great. Best thing that ever happened to me.That one is problematic. Out of all the nerds I know and all the nerds I've paid, none of them can figure it out.Their problem is that they input a sine wave at 50 or 75 watts or whatever, and it doesn't fail after hours and hours, so they all say there's nothing wrong. It's not a heat problem, I guess?By my problem is if I play through it, it fails. Sometimes it works, but not for long. It sounds almost like radio static, and the power, like volume power, fades. Then there's nothing. If I try it again in a few days, sometimes it works and then the same thing happens, and sometimes it doesn't work at all.So maybe it's the speakers' fault? It's the 4x12 combo.I long to be a nerd!Not For Long... We talking around fifteen or twenty minutes?Yep.