Authentic vintage vibes for modern musicians
The Amporium’s mission is to restore and offer vintage guitar amplifiers for guitar players to use and enjoy. Stop back regularly as we’re continually adding new amps.
We also usually have several amps that are waiting for work or just waiting on photos and listing, so get in touch if you are looking for (or looking to part with) vintage Vox, Fender, Marshall equipment.
As well as restored and serviced amplifiers, you will also find a unique range of parts to help you service and restore your own equipment. These are mostly (but not exclusively) for Vox amps and many are not available elsewhere.
We also sell a few hard-to-find used speakers and parts and some carefully selected guitars from time to time.
Whether you’re a guitar owner who dreams of pairing classic amps with your vintage guitars, a gigging musician seeking a classic backline or working in the studio, owning a vintage amp can be an investment that lasts you a lifetime.
Twins in tweed
(although neither of the are twins…)
‘Coming Soon’ page.
There you will find quick descriptions and photographs of the amps that I am working on or have recently finished, but are not yet fully photographed and listed.
These will show as ‘Sold Out’ but (in this case) that just means that I haven’t finished the listing. Drop me a line if you are interested in any of these amps as I can often bump them up the queue or agree a sale on them ‘as is’ if they take your fancy.
See opposite for the current ‘in progress’ list:
New in the Amporium are two of Fenders best Tweed reissue amps, one is big, one is small, one is a bedroom-friendly and one is loud!
On the left is a beautiful hand-wired reissue of the much-loved 1957 5W Champ, beautifully recreated using point-to-point wiring and a genuine pine cabinet containing a specially-designed speaker.
To the right is a 59 Bassman Ltd reissue - Fender’s acclaimed recreation of the legendary 5F6-A circuit in a faithful pine cabinet with a quartet of Jensen 10” speakers. Two channels, 40W of tweed loveliness and - if you have somewhere to turn it up - that beautiful, warm breakup that inspired Jim Marshall to start making his amplifiers.
Choose your weapon!
Vox AC4 1964
Vox AC10 twin 1965
Watkins Dominator 1963/4
Early ‘60s Watkins Westminsters (two available)
Vox AC100 head and cab
Hiwatt DR103 (1977, Hylight period)
Fender Bassman Export 50w (early silverface) head
Fender Blonde 1963 (AB163) Tremolux head and 2×12 cab
Fender Blonde 1964 (AB163) Tremolux head and 2×10 cab
Fender 1977 40w Pro Reverb (immaculate)
Vox AC30x ‘Expanded Frequency’ 2×15 combo