New 100W Bogner Ecstasy for 2025?

[Rdodson]

I have the Telos head which I play through an oversized Bogner 2x12 with ASW Crossroads (old Greenback copies). It has a boost mode which is good but I understand the JB45 has perfected. But it does that ONE thing, a Bognerized version of the Dirty Shirley perfectly.

The XTC 50w really is an optimized XTC. Loop is perfected. It has the 100B preamp. Somehow the filtering/NFB values are perfected for the 50w platform so it does not feel “small” whatsoever. It DOES (like the 100B) need some volume. The master is much better than the 100B but the lower gain (than the 101B) necessitates involving a tad of power amp compression.

If you were turned off by the 3534 but want a smaller more portable form factor that is a bit more rewarding for the expert player it is a fantastic platform.

My 100B is sonic bliss from an earlier era. I’ll probably never get to play it out unless I get asked to play an immense venue with no decibel limits on stage (unlikely). I am taking it to my amp tech this week for a thorough overhaul.

I will keep you guys posted on that, though he is slow in a genius mad scientist way and that’s fine with me.

 

[hopkinWFG]

Talking about the ecstacy... i have an older XTC 101B with the often talked about mercury transformer whom i bought it off from a known member here....

Am a shred metal old school kinda person and i lately been hit by the 20th anniversary XTC 101B and having searching on some tone sample it seems the 20th has gotten off from the dark mid kinda zone to brighter, tighter but not sure how much lowend it got to compares with the older 101B....

I also heard the blue channel has way lesser gain than the newer 101B ?

Not sure if the 20th will be my go to XTC but because i currently own quite number of amps and didnt wanna really gamble out on something like i did before with my Diezel experience and bogner Twin jet....

Will it be a perfect amp for me if i like my current 101b being compressed easy and fun to play, i would wish the current 101B i have has more lowend and being tighter ... and just like my XTC being so old school natural sounding sweet kinda amp !