I really, really like this amp!

Dating from mid 1968 (a date stamp on the choke shows July 1968), this Eminar predates any others I have ever seen. Eminars are normally considered to be 1970s amplifiers, and their styling tended to feauture lots of brushed aluminium, or even blue-anodised aluminium. This amp is obviously older in its styling. It's an easy 100-watter (probably around 120 watts or so with fresh output valves), and has a grouse sound and plenty of poke!

The four Mullard-branded 6L6 output valves are no longer at their optimum performance, which means that the output level is actually usable! Still very responsive and loud, and with a great 'sparkle' to the sound.

It's a two channel amp (one bright and one normal - or normal and bass if you prefer - with two inputs per channel) which feed into a common tone stack and then to the power stages. Along with the two volume controls are a Treble, Middle, Bass and Presence control, all of which give a nice progressive sweep with just the right frequency points. Very British in character in the pre-amp and tone stack stages, but with the USA 6L6 output stage. It's also very British in that the two channels can be bridged for even more tonal variations, just like an early Marshall or even Vox AC-30.

The quad box contains two mixed pairs of Aussie speakers which work really well together. The top two speakers are the venerable (Rola) Plessey C12P speakers, while the bottom pair are Sydney-made MSP 12PQ speakers. Originally the speakers would have all been the same, but a high tide mark in the bottom of the speaker cab shows that the cab had more than a drink spilled into it at some stage in its past, which would have seen the bottom two speakers die a very wet death!

The cab sounds amazingly good with the speakers that are fitted, but if you prefer to fit your own speakers, I can supply the box unloaded for a discount of $150. The speakers are each 16 ohms, wired to give a 16 ohm total load (two parallel pairs connected in series).

If you're wanting a true point-to-point handwired piggyback amp in the British tradition, but with a nice Aussie flavour to it, this amp is hard to go past.

It sounds fantastic, looks great, and is quite a rare early example of a Melbourne-made (Northcote) amplifier from the 1960s.

$1995AUD (plus shipping)