My DT-50 died for the 3rd time in the past year. I've already sent it in twice for repairs; one under the 1 year warranty; the other an extended warranty which I am glad I bought otherwise I would have one large paperweight on my hands. While I really like the sound of the amp it is very unreliable and I have not mishandled or damaged it. In fact in one of the repair shops I took it to, one of the techs said the amp looked brand new. I am very careful with my amps and only use it at church once or twice a week for 30 mins at a stretch. All of the repair tickets have said that the problem is that one of the power transformers has blown. One shop told me they see this all the time on the DT series amp and that it's a commonly known problem and that it's caused by cheap sub quality power transformers. We have checked all of our power supplies at church and none of the other guitarists ar having any trouble with their amps and they are on the same power supply.

Surely Line 6 must know this. Why haven't they fixed this problem? I'm sick of shipping the amp in for repairs and the last time the shipping company tore the hell out of my box so I'm going to have to really tape I up this time and hope the are more careful this time around. I contacted customer support and asked if I could buy just a box and they said no (the box is made for shipping because it has 4 cushions in it; it's not like you can just use any box; I told them I our be willing to BUY it; I didn't expect anything for free).

Bottom line I'm trying to get across if you have a DT series amp sell it while you can. I will never buy a Line 6 amp because of this experience. I know  the end result is that after I get the amp back from repair it will blow again and keep repeating this pattern until my extended warranty runs out. Not a reliable amp at all.