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Originally Posted by DukeX
Out of my three low watt tube amps, my favorite for my ES 335 is the Vox AC4HW1. Nice clean tones and awesome overdrive. Bedroom friendly volume. Perfect marriage of guit and amp IMO.
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I had one of these too with an upgraded Warehouse speaker and Mercury Magnetics iron and I still couldn't bond with it. Yes, it was light years better than the little AC4 but it still didn't sound very good to my ears. Plenty loud, for sure, but seemed to fall short in both the clean chime and the driven crunch, what I look for in a Vox amp. And it felt too compressed, I think due to the cabinet size being small(er) than an AC15/30. YMMV, of course.
I think I'm at the point where I've learned that 80% of an amp's tone is in the cabinet and for me personally, I don't like small cabinetry. I'd prefer a Vox Lil' Night Train or Mesa/Boogie TA-15 into a proper, quality 112 or 212 cab for Voxy low-watt bedroom playing.