I currently own a '77 JMP 2204 and while sounding glorious, their best year is not 1977 even though for a while I thought it was (birth year amp, hard not to be biased).
Had the fortunate duty of being caretaker of a '73 1987 (pcb I think) for three loud months. Superb amp, however 1973 is not their best year either.
Put about four hours on a '71 1959 while house-sitting for a friend. Very responsive and toneful but once again, not their best year.
There has been numerous plug ins to various JCM900 models. I owned a 100w dual reverb briefly, the SL-X models at Valhalla in Wellington and a mates 50w master volume model. Probably others. I rule out the decade of 90's from being the best
My '07 (I think) Vintage Modern was surprisingly good, heaps of useable tones and I even liked the plate reverb. But no, 2007 was not their finest hour.
JCM2000's and JVM's were not for me, really versatile but no, so that rules out the last twenty years as being their best.
There has been others, which including the aforementioned amps have had fantastic, very useable tones among them.
This brings me to my conclusion. Marshall hit their absolute peak in..... 1984
I say this because my '84 2203 and 1987 models are untouchable in the world of Marshall. True story, thirty years of research went into this.
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