Marshall Major Alternative

For those who have played a Marshall Major, can a Marshall Origin get close enough?

@pekoms The Marshall Major was built around hifi principles rather than guitar amp construction (since it was meant for either bass or PA amplification) so used a better output transformer and proper hifi design practice through the circuit. So there is something special about it in that regard.

You're going to have troubles getting around that on a budget!

I owned a Major for 10+ years. I bought it for $299 at Manny's in NYC/48th St. back in 1991. I used it for guitar. Plenty of watts from that quartet of 6550's! Tried it driving my pair of Quad 57's in parallel mono. Sounded real good!

I am in the process of building an affordable, John Frusciante-inspired stereo rig. However, I’m having trouble choosing a reasonably affordable amp to substitute for John’s 200W Marshall Major. Will Gallucio at Triungulo Lab made a faithful reproduction of the Marshall Major circuit, but it costs over $2K. For those who have played a Marshall Major, can a Marshall Origin get close enough? Or is there really something special going on in that circuit? Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated.

For anyone  https://9apps.ooo/curious, I’m using the clean channel of a DSL40C in place of the Silver Jubilee for the modern-voiced side of the rig. I’m also running through a PastFx Chorus Ensemble in place of the Boss CE-1 to get that signature crunch from the pre-amp.

issue got solved!!