For all those who wrote in about cooling fan problems on this model amp, I had the same thing happen as most of you - fan whining at startup, some weird static-y type noise a couple of times through the speakers; bop the back of it and the fan would stabilize, noise go away, etc.Like some who wrote in, I was thinking of disconnecting the idiot thing, figuring why would you need a fan on a solid-state amp anyway?!?! Finally, when it started acting up during a church service in front of 300 people, I decided it had to be changed. I had an amp-tech friend of mine change it out, and he gave me some insight as to why a fan is even there. Apparently it's mounted over a device (possibly a processor or some type of heatsink - not sure) that generates a lot of heat and the fan is there to pull the heat away from it, just like the heat sink mounted over a processor in a computer.Two good things for you to know about the fan:1) Don't disconnect it or take it out and leave it out - Marshall put it in there for a reason.2) When replacing it, any general computer fan seems to fit okay. My friend pulled a fan out of an old computer he had and changed it out and said it fit just fine (although he had to splice the connector from the original fan onto the new fan - no big deal). This model amp seems to be a decent one overall, just the fan bumming a lot of people out. If the fan starts acting up in your amp, do yourself a favor - get a replacement fan (new ones are around $5 at most computer stores); take out the piece of garbage Marshall installed; put your new fan in. You should have no more problems for awhile with your amp (we all hope not anyway).Hope this helps,May God bless you and yours.

This amp is good, but not that good. I prefer small amps better. This thing is not even that loud, and its quality is not that good. The FX sounds are pretty low and should have better quality. Overall I would give this thing a 3 out of 5.

This amp is sweet as hell!! All the reviews i read were right. This amp really does rock!!

Really Good Value!

I play through tube amps. I always have in the past because they sound better. Then I needed something to play smaller clubs and parties. Do I haul the stack around with me and play on 1-or 1 1/2, or do I get something else? Well I went looking and found the Marshall MG 250 DFX. It's Marshall to the core and cranked sounds like what I was looking for. It's not tube, but it's close. And it rings like a bell and crunches. I play through a Boss GT-3 pedal and my range has increased ten fold. It's a good bet. Solid State is where it's at for me now. It weighs what my half stack does. It's no problem getting it around. Buy it, play it, love it. I did.