That's got to be MSRP and not street price. I don't know why they'd make a stripped down version of the Mark V and charge almost the same for it??
I work at an independent mom & pop music store and we carry Mesa, which is the only reason I know this.
Mesa is one of the only companies I know of that has what's called a "Pro Net" which means MSRP is what they sell for;
anywhere, at least they should if you are buying new from an authorized dealer. As opposed to MSRP being way over the usual 'selling' price depending on where you go and what kind of profit the store is looking to make on it.
Going ANY lower than that and Mesa will yank the line from your store. Same goes for online, which is why a lot of people don't really 'shop' around looking for a good new Mesa price. It's good and bad at the same time, IMO. Levels the playing field but sticks the salesman (me) with no room to give someone a discount!
Only exception is if the product is discontinued....
Totally looking forward to trying this mini head. We should have one in this week. The Mini-Rec is brutal as fuck so I expect nothing less from this bad boy!
EL84's scared me too at first; but we put the mini-rec a/b to a new Dual Recto and it's just as brutal sounding. Different though, kind of how various rev's of the Recto's all sound different.
