The main problem was the shop only had one special edition so I would have had to wait for it to get fixed. As the amp had died already I would never have had confidence in it.
The heat issue didn't come into it as the amp died after only 10 minutes.
Its a shame as i registered the amp on the Marshall website and got a letter from Marshall that gave me a free 3 year warranty. Its pretty poor that its the product thats the weak link.
The outcome is the shop has swapped it for a Fender HRD which I'm happy with,mainly cos i'm familiar with...
Took the dsl to rehearsal tonite switched the amp on standby let the tubes warm up. Flicked the standby to on and it was sounding under powered so I checked round the back and one output tube was glowing red another was glowing orange and last two were hardly glowing at all.
I put the amp...
I think the difference is purely cosmetic.
The amp was made in 2007 week 39.
The amp sounds nice indeed but as has been said before it could do with a change of speaker.
That was me. The blue looks nice but the green looks far better LOL.
It would be nice to know how many of these are out there. The blue one is in Aus and i bought mine in Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
I think I'll drop an email to Marshall for more info.
I bought this on Monday and after some googling and checking the marshall website I cant find any info on this version of the 401.
I guess that any difference from the stock model is cosmetic. If anyone has some information on this model pls comment.
Heres some pics