"jakdedert" wrote in message
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Arfa Daily wrote:
A few weeks ago, I was looking for a schematic for a PA amp, and called
it a "head" on here. I got told that it wasn't a head, because it had a
preamp in it, and a head has only line level inputs.

Today, I was looking on the site where I get all my Marshall info -

http://www.drtube.com/marshall.htm#M2000

- for schematics for a 2195, which is a guitar amplifier with a preamp in
it. Interestingly, that site calls this amplifier - and indeed anything
that is not a "combo" - a head ...

So now I won't feel so wrong continuing to call these amps heads, as the
muso who owns the shop where I get most of this work from does too, and
has for as many long years as I have known him.

Arfa

I'd call any guitar amp, that didn't include speakers, a head. Any with
speakers would properly be termed a combo, as you said.

jak

Yes Jak, that had always been my understanding too, until I got picked up on
it ...

Arfa