Blackstar St. James 50-Watt 6L6 Tube Guitar Amplifier Head — Open Box

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Experience The World's Lightest 50 Watt Valve Amp - The Blackstar St. James 50-Watt 6L6 Tube Guitar Amplifier Head Answering calls from guitarists everywhere for a valve amplifier that is truly lightweight and portable, Blackstar delivers the most advanced, innovative and best-sounding 50 Watt valve amps in the world. Available in a higher gain 6L6 design these amps are simple to use, but highly versatile. Developed after months of forensic examination of vintage valve amps, the intuitive two channel set-up delivers their best ever cleans and overdrives without compromise. Reactive load allows you to use the valve amps without a speaker connected, mimicing the response of a typical speaker for authentic power amp tones at home or in the studio The new Cab Rig simulator technology reproduces the sound and feel of a mic’d up guitar cab in incredible detail Power reduction to 5 watts, or "Sag" setting which recreates a softer vintage response Super lightweight amps, half the weight of a traditional valve amp When it comes to tone and that all-important "feel" factor, great valve amps rightfully remain the "gold standard". The trouble is that great ones capable of delivering 50 Watts or more are all back-breakingly heavy. Until now… enter Blackstar’s brand-new St. James Series - the lightest 50 Watt valve guitar amps on earth. The pivotal design goal was simple yet bold - to build the world’s lightest valve amps without compromising tone, feel or performance. To this end, sturdy, lightweight cabinets were crafted from acoustically-pleasing candlenut wood; and the amp chassis was also successfully lightened without loss of strength. A good start, but there's still a vitally important component to deal with - namely the mains transformer…. The St. James range use highly efficient, lightweight power transformers designed around modern SMPS (Switched-Mode Power Supply) technology. 36 months of intense R&D have delivered all the benefits of SMPS, namely lightweight and