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I heard lots of good things about the Blackstar ID series, which I'm probably going get down the line.

It's difficult to justify getting a tube amp when you need to start pushing them hard to get them sound good, being difficult to carry around, and requiring periodic maintenance.

I feel like this deserves a mention in here, although at $90, it's not expensive. Whether it's high end or not remains to be seen.
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There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.

And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.

Chippertheripper wrote:I feel like this deserves a mention in here, although at $90, it's not expensive. Whether it's high end or not remains to be seen.
http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 4/180.html
There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.

And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.

That link doesn't work. Are you talking about these things?

Vox Version

Jaguar018 wrote:

Chippertheripper wrote:I feel like this deserves a mention in here, although at $90, it's not expensive. Whether it's high end or not remains to be seen.
http://www.hotoneaudio.com/products/nan" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... 4/180.html
There's a plexiglass flavor, tweed, vox, metal, and some sort of jcm, I think.

And it's been speculated that they're going to release a 20w version at namm this year.

That link doesn't work. Are you talking about these things?

Vox Version

I have the Thunder. Quite handy amps for practising without pissing off the neighbours too much

Yeah, them jisms.

This just in: the mojo diamond sounds really awesome for an in the house headphone amp.
Plug all your effects in, and go bonkers.

I've always been Polytone-curious.

This is a pretty impressive Quilter 101 demo, even if it wasn't intended to be.

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marqueemoon wrote:This is a pretty impressive Quilter 101 demo, even if it wasn't intended to be.

https://youtu.be/Mv8l4M0w7BQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Quilters are all the rage on SG101

ifallalot wrote:

marqueemoon wrote:This is a pretty impressive Quilter 101 demo, even if it wasn't intended to be.

https://youtu.be/Mv8l4M0w7BQ" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Quilters are all the rage on SG101

They are. I don't really know if it's because they're actually really good, or because they're also built by a surf geek, all those guys are getting old and don't want to carry a tube amp anymore, or a list of other reasons.
I've yet to play a quilter. One of my bandmates bought and returned one. I can only assume that I'd be fine with it, as I'm just a hack guitarist anyway.

Not having the money to buy a Deluxe Reverb or other quality tube amp, I went looking for used amp bargains and eventually bought a Lab Series L7.

Designed by Bob Moog, the Lab Series were very high end in their day, used by BB King and others.

I would love to get a good guitarist with a good guitar to show me what it can do. It sounds good enough to me but I don't play well enough or know how to push it the right way.

I used to work for a place that did some class D stuff and the designers seemed to think they distorted like a tube amp. With that in mind I didn't have any type of tube amp bias in my head and kind of wanted solid state for reliability. I also understand CMOS much better than bipolar and never learned the first thing about tubes...

Any way, my L7 has 4 10's and about 100 watts power, it is real clean for its age and it was around $300. High end doesn't have to be expensive but the Lab Series was $$$ back in the day.

So this exists now...
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Chippertheripper wrote:So this exists now...
http://www.quilterlabs.com/index.php/pr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ... roblock-45

Dang. Too bad there is not a compact pedal power supply that will do 24V. There's this, but kinda spendy. http://www.thegigrig.com/electroman-c2x17796188" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I'm definitely amused by the idea of an amp that would fit on a Pedaltrain Nano or Nano +. I know EH has been doing ,micro heads for a while, but the Quilter EQ seems a lot more usable.

Roland Jazz Chorus 120.

Shit is really expensive, to it's safe to categorize it as "high end", right?

I think the more I play guitar in professional settings backing someone vs "guitar featured" music the less I really care about solid state or tube amps. I think part of the lack of "boutique" is because it's really hard to convince guitar players to pay a lot for non tubes. Quilter to me is boutique, dv mark is boutique, most of their amps are affordable. Roland amps are affordable and I think still kind of the top end on solid state options