I owned one of these for quite some time and really liked it; I just couldn't turn it up loud enough in most places to get the tone I wanted on the Ultra channel. In the vintage/classic modes, Led Zeppelin-like tones are within reach.

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I used it for some recordings in that vein, and the people for whom I was laying down tracks loved it. Jeff Beck is probably one of the better-known users of the DSL 50-it's all over his last three albums, and I saw him live using one. He winds up the amp and rolls back his guitars tone knob and gets such a fat, sustaining sound. Man, the DSL50 is one of my all time favorite amps. I've owned tons of Marshalls (new and old) and some highly respected heads (Bogner Uberschall, VHT 50CL, Mesa Stiletto, Mesa Mark III, etc.) and I have to say that the DSL50 can hold it's own with any of them. I had a DSL50, then went to a DSL100 and now I'm back to a DSL50 again.

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I've determined that I like the 50-watter more, as it has this sweet midrange thing going on that I can't describe. It just sounds better to me. It's also very versatile. On the green channel, you can get sparkling warm clean tones all the way up to Zep or Black Crowes stuff with the 'crunch' switch engaged. Sounds like a JCM800, but has a more beefy low end.

This channel works EXTREMELY well with an OD pedal to push it into tight high gain territory. Crazy nice sounding. The red channel has less low end, but has more gain and a slightly more modern tone. It doesn't sound like a recto or anything like that, but it is a high gain Marshall head that's voiced to do modern rock and metal very well. Awesome, awesome amp. Beck's and Moore's are not stock from what I've heard, and I would find it surprising if they were.

I used to really hate the sound of them, but then I tried one through decent speakers (ie not the Chinese G12T-75s in the matching Marshall cabs) and thought it didn't sound anywhere near as bad. I still don't think they sound like a classic Marshall though - too much boom at the bottom end and an odd hollowness in the mids that you can't seem to dial out with the EQ or the switches. They are also IMO quite poorly built by Marshall standards and not particularly reliable. I'm sure that as usual some people will post that they've had their for years without any problems and done a world tour with it or whatever. But the fact is that they're simply not as physically robust as the older amps (especially the pots, which are a common source of trouble) and seem to have a tendency to blow output transformers - I've replaced several (the earlier Drake ones seem worse than the later Dagnalls). Luckily replacing the OT is a breeze on this amp. Four bolts and the wires are just held on by push-connectors.

There are other problems too. I think they're marginally more reliable than the 900 series was, but it's a close call, and they're nowhere near in the same league as anything they built before 1990. I'm not saying they're terrible, and of course not everyone's breaks, but IMO they are not a top-quality amp despite the company name and history. Laura vergani meccanica dei materia list. Just my opinion.

I bought a DSL50 and a DSL100 in '98 and had no problems with either of them. I had the same tubes in the DSL50 the entire time (sold it in early 2005).

Both gigged a lot and were in the back seat of my car riding around quite a bit. I like the DSL50 a lot. I kept it a long time but since I owned other amps by Diezel, Bogner and VHT it just wasn't getting used enough to stay around. For the $$, I think is about the best rock amp in its price range. I guess maybe I'd take an ENGL Screamer 50 head over the DSL50 but I think the DSL is a fine amp. I'd recommend one with no hesitiation at all. You can find them used for under $750- what a steal.

They're good amps. Used to have one, was too loud for my purposes though. The only thing I don't like is that they come with AWFUL preamp tubes. The Marshall branded preamp tubes that were in mine would suck life out of any amp, simply horrible. The stock Svetlana/SED powertubes are good though. They're very versatile, which IMO can't be said about all Marshalls. Of course, they always sound like Marshalls but you can get anything from decent clean to death metal tones.

No, they're not the best built amps ever but I had no problems with mine and the bottom line is that they do sound good - after you change those preamp tubes that is. I wish Marshall made a DSL50 combo version instead of that totally crap DSL401. Click to expand.Ha! That just shows it's all down to taste.

I wish they made the DSL401 as a head with a 2-EL34 power section instead of the (IMO) hollow-sounding and less flexible DSL50. I much prefer the DSL401's fully footswitchable two true channels and partial third channel instead of the compromise of the 50 which isn't even really two channels, since they share the same EQ - it just has four modes, only two of which are footswitchable. I also like the 401's overall (post-PI) master volume.