5 Watts can be seriously loud if you need to turn it up to sound good. My 1 Watt Marshall is borderline for apartment level playing because it sounds muffled until I turn it up a bit. Could be the fresh speaker.
My main solution for bedroom level playing is a preamp with speaker emulation, plugged into good computer speakers. The preamp sounds like an amp with speakers and the active speakers reproduce that at neighborly levels.
Some amps have speaker emulated outputs that let you plug into headphones, PA, etc - without using a speaker. That would work too, and you have the power of the amp for times when you can play louder.
edit:
I tried the Marshall DSL1 at the shop and it didn't sound all that loud there, with the sound spreading into the large room with lots of amps and guitars all over the place. Rooms in the apartment are a different matter.
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Last edited by perttime; 04-21-2018 at 01:35 AM.
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