Price Check: Dual Recto Rack Mount Heads

[Drew]

Can you guys give me an idea what a Mesa Dual Recto Rack Mount head from the early years are worth these days? I have a friend who has a couple and he is thinking about moving them. The last sale I saw on Reverb was from 6 years ago and it was only $1300 and I thought they were worth far more than that.

 

[saxxamafone]

seen the ones on reverb now?.. like everything, they're getting pretty pricey

 

[saxxamafone]

I sold one a couple of years ago for $3000 AUD which is about $2000 USD

 

[JackBootedThug]

Can you guys give me an idea what a Mesa Dual Recto Rack Mount head from the early years are worth these days? I have a friend who has a couple and he is thinking about moving them. The last sale I saw on Reverb was from 6 years ago and it was only $1300 and I thought they were worth far more than that.

oh man that's sweet. killer stereo rig if someone wants to go that route. I would say 2k depending on revision.

 

[gtrwun]

Can you guys give me an idea what a Mesa Dual Recto Rack Mount head from the early years are worth these days? I have a friend who has a couple and he is thinking about moving them. The last sale I saw on Reverb was from 6 years ago and it was only $1300 and I thought they were worth far more than that.

I’m sure it depends on the revision.
I owned and gigged one of these in the mid 90’s and it was a great amp.
Mine had no clean to speak of, so it really took a lot of volume knob work to make it work. It was well worth the effort.

 

[Spaceboy]

in the 1800-2000 range lately

 

[Racerxrated]

F will be 3K. 2K for a G. Racktos typically command a little more than normal heads.

 

[Snave]

A lot has changed in 6 years. The past 3 or 4 (all Rev Gs) have sold for $2750-$3000.

I'd expect a Rev F rackhead to sell for $4k these days. They're exceptionally rare.

 

[Drew]

A lot has changed in 6 years. The past 3 or 4 (all Rev Gs) have sold for $2750-$3000.

I'd expect a Rev F rackhead to sell for $4k these days. They're exceptionally rare.

How do we tell the Rev?

 

[Chubbs]

How do we tell the Rev?

https://www.rectifierguide.com/
This may help, although I’m not sure if the rack mount heads utilized the same serial number system as the heads did.

 

[Racerxrated]

How do we tell the Rev?

Serial# on the sticker on the R rear top of chassis. Up to 3000 you can find Fs; G was just starting. But you have to look on the preamp board to be absolutely sure… it will say 1F or 1G I believe.

 

[Snave]

How do we tell the Rev?

Racerxrated is correct about the serial range and PCB printing. You look by the filter caps for the revision: either RF 1F or RF 1G for rack heads.

The "quick and dirty" ID method is checking whether the amp has a serial loop (only one knob for "send level" instead of two for "send" and "mix").

 

[Racerxrated]

Racerxrated is correct about the serial range and PCB printing. You look by the filter caps for the revision: either RF 1F or RF 1G for rack heads.

The "quick and dirty" ID method is checking whether the amp has a serial loop (only one knob for "send level" instead of two for "send" and "mix").

There’s a rumor, that some early Gs can have the earlier serial loop…and some late Fs can have the less desirable parallel version. Haven’t seen either though, myself.

 

[mooncobra]

There was a rev f rackto on Craigslist here (SF) for a month and it was 2500 asking price , don’t know what it went for and that was just a couple weeks ago

 

[Spaceboy]

A lot has changed in 6 years. The past 3 or 4 (all Rev Gs) have sold for $2750-$3000.

I'd expect a Rev F rackhead to sell for $4k these days. They're exceptionally rare.

Nah, they sell for much less than this all the time on Facebook, Craiglist, etc.

 

[vultures]

There’s a rumor, that some early Gs can have the earlier serial loop…and some late Fs can have the less desirable parallel version. Haven’t seen either though, myself.

Here's a 2000 Dual Rec board, one of the earliest 3-channels, right after Rev G ended. Still has the Rev F/Rev G Schumacher transformers. It has a Parallel Loop that sucks absolutely donkey balls. Second one is a 1998 Rev G 2-Channel, Serial Loop. Wish I could have snapped some nice pics of the Rev G before I sold it

 

[gtrwun]

I’m not sure where some of you are getting your pricing from?

4K for a rev f/g racto?????

Show me a done deal in that range please.

Like Mooncobra said, they sit for weeks at 2.5 here in the Bay Area.

 

[Snave]

I’m not sure where some of you are getting your pricing from?

4K for a rev f/g racto?????

Show me a done deal in that range please.

Like Mooncobra said, they sit for weeks at 2.5 here in the Bay Area.

The last six rev G rack heads on Reverb sold for an average of $2,791, ignoring shipping costs.