Why are some used Mesa Boogie Dual Rectifier Solo heads $1600 & other $3000. Which is mine?

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Between 7 revisions of Rectifier and 7 stripe/dot/no stripe for the Mark III,
then Mark II, IIB, IIC, IIC+, IIC++ etc., has anyone ever compiled a master
Mesa Boogie model/revision/history list?

If nothing else, it'd be a good john read. :giggle:
 
Never thought a recto would sell for more than a SLO. I’ve heard a rev F and it was good, but paled in comparison to some wizards and other boutique amps
 
The price keeps going up. I expect that to continue.
 
VESmedic said:
Definitely agreed. While I do think the rev F was better than my rev G, they are both great.
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There's a huge difference between my F Triple and the last G Triple I had. While the G is very good, the F is that much better IMO. Just way more organic, better clarity...like the difference between a generic newer Marshall and a 71 Superlead.
Still had the Recto thing but it is much better sounding to my ears. The earlier the revision the more 'Mesa meets Marshall' it sounds...
They will never be a super tight amp...like a Mark...but I'm not one who needs super tight metal tones. I have heard the Rev C can get almost Mark tight.
 
Racerxrated said:
There's a huge difference between my F Triple and the last G Triple I had. While the G is very good, the F is that much better IMO. Just way more organic, better clarity...like the difference between a generic newer Marshall and a 71 Superlead.
Still had the Recto thing but it is much better sounding to my ears. The earlier the revision the more 'Mesa meets Marshall' it sounds...
They will never be a super tight amp...like a Mark...but I'm not one who needs super tight metal tones. I have heard the Rev C can get almost Mark tight.
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My C was a little tighter than the other C's I was able to pick from, but it never got into my Mark IV territory as far as tightness.
It really sounded sounded A LOT like an SLO in the upper end but with a thicker bottom end. Believe it or not, thru the Mesa top cab and an old Ampeg V4 cab with Altecs I was able to dial a really good Rock/Marshall type tone with the Orange channel. Red channel without the Altec cab and dialed in properly would get that classic Recto sound in spades, but nice and tight. There was only one size cab back then so this is what would be an oversize cab today. Still have em both top and bottom diamond plate.. LOL
 
I 100% don't believe $3k+ is any standard going rate for a Rev F. Maybe people are seeing sold Reverb listings and thinking they sold for that much. I mean, there was a Rev F -triple- on ebay a couple months ago for like $2k and it sat through 4-5 listings before being sold.
 
narad said:
I 100% don't believe $3k+ is any standard going rate for a Rev F. Maybe people are seeing sold Reverb listings and thinking they sold for that much. I mean, there was a Rev F -triple- on ebay a couple months ago for like $2k and it sat through 4-5 listings before being sold.
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Because it was in Moldova.

And this is what happened to the thing when the buyer in the US received it…

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phil b said:
My C was a little tighter than the other C's I was able to pick from, but it never got into my Mark IV territory as far as tightness.
It really sounded sounded A LOT like an SLO in the upper end but with a thicker bottom end. Believe it or not, thru the Mesa top cab and an old Ampeg V4 cab with Altecs I was able to dial a really good Rock/Marshall type tone with the Orange channel. Red channel without the Altec cab and dialed in properly would get that classic Recto sound in spades, but nice and tight. There was only one size cab back then so this is what would be an oversize cab today. Still have em both top and bottom diamond plate.. LOL
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I have a Rev D and it is noticeably tighter and more attack-y than any of the later Revisions I've tried (I've tried every version Recto except for Rev C & E), but still not as tight as my iic+ or coli's. Curious how a Rev C would compare. The tightest "Recto" I've tried has been my Badlander (to me is tighter than the marks), but very different sound and feel (even more so) than other Rectifiers. I have an '89 SLO and I don't think my Rev D nor Triple Rev F/C sound much like it at all
 
On a related note, would $1800 be a reasonable price for a Dual Rectifier Roadking II?
 
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LCW said:
Because it was in Moldova.

And this is what happened to the thing when the buyer in the US received it…

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Wrong. I bought the Triple out of Moldova. Showed up in 5 business days and was packed well. It shits all over the last F triple I had, which I sold to another RTer. It’s night and day better. The first F triple, I ran it through one side of my Recto cab while running my C+ through the other side and the C+ was much clearer. This Euro version F, it has equal clarity to the C+.
This seller out of Moldova did have an F Dual that he listed for more than what I paid for my Triple. Maybe that’s what showed up damaged.
As far as a 2K or less F, there was one that was listed early in the year and sold for 1800. But those days are gone, I’m afraid.
Edit: Maybe that was the Rev G triple he listed after I bought the F? He had it for more than what I paid. But either way the F I bought from him was packed well and shipped fast.
 
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Racerxrated said:
Wrong. I bought the Triple out of Moldova. Showed up in 5 business days and was packed well. It shits all over the last F triple I had, which I sold to another RTer. It’s night and day better. The first F triple, I ran it through one side of my Recto cab while running my C+ through the other side and the C+ was much clearer. This Euro version F, it has equal clarity to the C+.
This seller out of Moldova did have an F Dual that he listed for more than what I paid for my Triple. Maybe that’s what showed up damaged.
As far as a 2K or less F, there was one that was listed early in the year and sold for 1800. But those days are gone, I’m afraid.
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Thats a Triple in the damaged pic (you can zoom and see) and was from the Moldova guy. So you got lucky and/or he realized he needed to up his packing game.

He seems to snag rare Rectos somehow on a regular basis. He’s got a Dual F chrome on eBay now for 3400.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mesa-Boogi...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0
 
LCW said:
Thats a Triple in the damaged pic (you can zoom and see) and was from the Moldova guy. So you got lucky and/or he realized he needed to up his packing game.

He seems to snag rare Rectos somehow on a regular basis. He’s got a Dual F chrome on eBay now for 3400.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Mesa-Boogi...2349624.m46890.l49286&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0
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He’s a collector. He’s had every version Recto, and C+ including Coliseums. He’s sold a ton of them and has good feedback on eBay. Not one bad feedback when I bought from him. Clearly though that pack job was an epic fail. Too bad; hope it can be brought back without too much expense. Maybe the head box can be repaired and the amp itself is ok.
 
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So i’m wondering…..if the older ones really sound better, why did Mesa keep revising them and making them sound worse?
 
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