Once upon a time I was a happy man, living a simple, happy life. My 100 watt V-4 reissue was good enough. Loud enough. I was proud to own a mature, adult amp that I could carry with one hand. And then along came the Sunn 300T. The biggest, heaviest 75 pounds you have ever lifted. The fullest, most immersive bass tone to ever crush your soul. Too big to fit comfortably on top of my 6x10, all shudder in fear before it’s mighty heft. An amp that single handedly caused the great zip tie famine of the early ‘80s. Who among us doesn’t remember the frightened looks on our parents faces as we sat around the dinner table wondering how we were going to organize our cables?

This beast had spent a few years in storage and needed a good cleaning and a new set of tubes. The screen resistors were toast and the only HT fuse still working (there’s 3) was a 10 amp car fuse. This amp is huge in size and huge in sound. Once heard there’s really no going back to normal life. Or at least life without a sturdy hand truck.