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Offline theanalogkid6

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70's Sunn Sonaro Head
« on: January 28, 2011, 09:10:36 pm »
Just purchased this head, wondering if there is a way to figure out what year it's from. Also, anybody use one of these as a guitar amp and if so what kind of distortion pedal do you use? I was thinking of getting an 80's ibanex TS9 or 808.

Offline EdBass

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Re: 70's Sunn Sonaro Head
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 09:19:03 am »
They usually have an inspection sticker, or just a hand written date somewhere on the chassis. Other than that, you probably would need to post some front and back pictures for someone here to guestimate it's age.

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Re: 70's Sunn Sonaro Head
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 03:15:34 pm »
Here's some pictures I took today.

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Re: 70's Sunn Sonaro Head
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2011, 09:39:32 am »
No way to tell anything from the serial number. The grill cloth and badge date it after mid 1969. There was a 40W EL34 version made up until about 1970 and after that was the 80W version with 6550 tubes and no GZ34. What tubes does it have?

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Re: 70's Sunn Sonaro Head
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 03:00:34 pm »
EL34's. On the rear it says 115 watts but I think that's related to the power supply. Thanks for the info so far.