I have a 1974 Coliseum 880 for sale. This is a fun amp to have (I play bass) but I already have a full Coliseum Bass stack and more amps and cabinets than room anyway. I have plenty of photos of this beauty so please send me your e-mail address and I will forward them to you.
Serial number is 44125 and it was inspected 6-29-74 before leaving the factory. Dimensions: 30" wide, 6.5" tall, 11.5" deep. Weighs 40 lbs.
Set of schematics included with the amp. Local instrument/amplifier repair shop LS ELectronics (founded and operated by a former Ampeg engineer) had it this fall, tested everything and said it was within specs. The 880 can be used with one 4 ohm cabinet or two 4 ohm cabinets resulting in 2 ohm load and maximum power.
From the 1974 Sunn catalog:
Coliseum 880
The ultimate amp for guitar or bass. We created the Coliseum amps for superlative performance. The Lead and Bass have been milestones in instrument amplification. The 880 is the second generation of those amps, built to do it all. We coupled the fantastic tonal range of the Coliseum series to a pair of controls never seen before. First, a variable distort control that combines with a field effect transistor preamp to give a fat, overdriven tube sound at any volume in any degree. You can turn it on and off with a remote footswitch. And then we built the first variable sustain control to make your strings come alive. Pick a note and the 880 grabs hold and refuses to die without a change in sound quality.
Front panel: two inputs, brite switch, volume, low bass (20-80hz), hi bass (80-250hz), mid (250hz-1khz), treble (1-10khz), range switches on mid and treble, distort, sustain, distort on/off switch, power switch, polarity switch.
Rear panel: Circuit breaker, two speaker jacks, footswitch jack for distort/boost, preamp out jack, power amp in jack.
Power: 320 watts RMS (880 watts peak).
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Asking $500 plus $50 shipping. Will pack well. Last one I saw on Ebay sold for $643; I recently got $515 for a Coliseum Bass that was not in as good a cosmetic condition as the 880 or as rare, so I think the price is fair. Would rather sell to someone on the forum than through Ebay. Paypal only.
