Roland Review: Jazz Chorus 120 Amplifier

History:

Purchase: I bought this unit at Guitar Center for about $650 US

What I Like About This Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amplifier: Great sound, great speakers, great chorus effect. Sparkling as any Fender Amp.

What I Do NOT Like About The Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amplifier: Some very cheap construction features. The input jacks (4 of them, two channels High and Low inputs) were plastic junk soldered to a circuit board with two resistors with a plug to the rest of the circuit. The plug idea is very good, but the plastic jacks fell apart after 2 months of careful use! I replaced each with metal ones which I soldered to the board and they are fine now. The cost of the new jacks was 6 dollars and a little work. Now I am extremely disappointed that Roland didnt have enough sense to put in metal jacks for 6 frigging dollars! I would have gladly paid 6 dollars more for the amp! This kind of cheapened construction in an otherwise fine instrument is a real turn off. What do I have to do, every time I buy one of their products, change the jacks? Lucky for me I am an electrical engineer and knew what the hell to do! For anyone else it would have been a hundred dollar repair bill. I understand that I could have, under warranty sent the unit back and they probably would have repaired it - with the same plastic crap that broke in the first place. Smarten up Roland! People shell out good money and you ruin an excellent instrument by saving a few cents on the part that takes the most wear on the thing.

Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amplifier Quality Rating: See above comment on what I dont like about the unit. Otherwise it is fine.

Review Summary: Great instrument, with major stupid flaws that are quite preventable with common sense!

Rating of this Roland product: 4

This Roland Jazz Chorus 120 Amplifier Guitar Amplifiers Review Submitted By: 1946dodge

Review Date: 2004-08-24