A Real Klo n Cen taur
Screw it, the holiday season is no time for
modesty! As long as you're hitting Santa
Claus up for outrageous guitar gifts, why
not ask for something you'd never buy for
yourself: a pure luxury item, a conspicuous
show of individual prosperity, an unabashed
status symbol that will leave your fellow
guitar-dork cohorts seething with jealousy?
A genuine Klon Centaur overdrive should
have you covered on all counts . Sure, there
are sonically indistinguishable, precisely
"Kloned" replications of the circuit available
everywhere for under $200, but the small
number of original Centaurs produced,
plus the astronomical prices that they command on the used market, means that few
players have ever seen one in real life, much less played through or owned one. This
makes the Centaur not only an object of great desire for guitarists, but also a pretty
sound investment. A Klon originally sold its groundbreaking overdrive for $225 in 1994,
and the going rate at the time of this writing seems to be anywhere from about $1,300
to $2,400, depending on the specific version. That's an excellent rate of return by any
measure. A Klon Centaur is the gift that will keep on giving.
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