Good deals to be had on a DSL 2000...what's the lowdown?

[RacerX]

Yep. The tone of an 800 with everything dimed is a beautiful thing. Very full.

[kxbx]

The JCM800s can. The difference is the Iron. Which the whole reason for upgrade transformers.

It's not just the iron. The JCM800's were the last Marshalls to have a pure tube path and the standard FM tonestack. All the Marshalls since, that I've seen, and that's include both the 900's and 2000's do their tone-shaping, distortion and channel switching with solid-state devices. It's a hybrid design.

Not that it really matters, but after skimming the schematics it looks like the 2000 DSL has some optocouplers and JFETs just to do channel switching. It's the 900 series that used op-amps and diode clipping.