Best Guitar Amplifier Brands

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The Top Ten

1Marshall
Been playing guitar for over 30 yrs now. And I have played them all. If your into rock. Rock n roll, hard rock, metal, grunge, thrash. There is no better amp out there. Plain and simple. You get the most massive chucking when doing rhythm and the best screaming solos and pinch harmonics from the marshall. And they are built to last a life time. Line 6 is a poor imatation of a marshall and a fender. There a amp for a youngster to play around with. How many pros on your T.V. do you see using marshall. There's a reason for it. Marshall is the best and will always be.
Used more than any other amp model by professionals. These amps deliver pure tone whether its through an amp head or through a cabinet, they can really perform no matter what genre of music you play.
I want a Marshall. I'm poor and am thinking of buying an AVT 50 WATT amp. I have a line 6 30 watt amp and I do not love or even like the amp whatsoever. It sounds like a walrus taking a dump with a bunch of other walruses taking a dump. I plugged a grunge pedal into it and now it sounds okay. Marshall is number one. Best sound ever. No matter what amp amp you use from that company. Not made in China either. I like that too ^. ^
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2Mesa Boogie
Why is Mesa Boogie so low?! Have Mesa Boogie ever made a bad amp? Look how many guys endorse their gear. Have you ever tried a Dual Rectifier or Mark V? It will tear you to shreds. They are AMAZING amps. Best part, they're all tube. Line 6, why the hell are they fifth. Why are they in the top 15? They are nothing but crap digital rubbish. Play a real amp like a Mesa Boogie, line 6, pft. Mesa Boogie is the best amp brand by far.
IÂ've played through Marshalls and a couple of years ago used a lent italian The Valve, with great sounds and great craftmanship. It is a real piece of amp art. I recently bought a Mesa Boogie Mini Rectifier 25 and I can assure anyone Mesa Boogie is a marvel. IÂ'd say itÂ's hard to set a definite boundary between great sounding all-valve amps, including Fender and Vox, but my personal taste goes for Mesa Boogie as number one.
Mesa makes no digital toys. They won't put their name on a solid state piece of junk just to sell amps to kids. There are tons of great amps, all with different character... This is one of the best. I play a Mark V now. I also own a Fender 59 reissue, a Marshall JCM 200, and a Carvin V3. Mesa blows those away in my opinion.
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3Line 6
I have a 75-watt Spider and it is the best amp ever. Really loud, great manual and preset effects, easy looping, and you can also use it as a speaker for your iPod or computer.
Awmse apms.
Best amp eve used.
I use line6 spider I
I love this amp.
It has best features than any other amplifier.
I have a line 6 spider jam 75 watt. Best amp ever. Has all the effects you need for every song. Just amazing what technology it has.
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4Fender
6th! You gotta be kidding' me!
The Best Amp is Marshall, but I was so sad to see the place of the 2nd Best Amp of the World... So I gave my Vote to Fender!
My Choices:
1. Marshall
2. Fender
3. Mesa Boogie
4. Vox
5. Hughes & Kettner
6. Peavey
7. Orange
8. Blackstar
9. Randall
10. Carvin
11. Matchless
12. Bogner
13. Diesel Herbert
14. Crate
15. Roland
16. Egnator
17. Krank
18. Bugera
19. Laney
20. Line6

Nirmal1991USA

What is wrong with peoples minds, #6, I meen marshall is best and vox deserves to be up there but fender should get at least 3rd. I have been playing guitar for over 10 years and I am always amazed by the quality in all of fenders amps marshall is a little bit better and you could argue that vox is, but its miles above line six. When I do gigs I use my marshall, but for my students I always recomend a mustang.
Line 6? they suck compared to all the other ones. Fender is amazing, with great sound and amazing quality. I have a Fender and a Line 6 and the FEnder is so much better, that I am so mad when I play the Line 6
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5Peavey
I just got done playing around with many amps at guitar center and an old, beaten up Peavey sounded 100x better than a new fender mustang 2 and marshall mg30fx. My friend has a massive line 6 that sounds great on its own but sounds like a cat that just got its tail run over by a truck when you jun pedals to it.
Good enough for Eddie Van Halen and Joe Satriani, good enough for you
You know, I'm getting an peavey vypyr 15 and I must say that this amp has so many efects that I can't even handle
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6Vox
I got the big one for christmas and the effects are AMAZING! The sound is a lot better than my old amp too. It also isn't too heavy for it's size. Then add the fact that it is super duper loud too!
I have a vox valvtronics amp I bought a while ago it has a real preamp tube and loads of verry accurate effects great reverb 3 kinds good modulation effects awesome distotion and tube overdrive and verry important it is easy to ajust effect level and a power knob that lets you ajust output 1 to 60 watts like a pr attinurator its great so you don't loose that sound of a cranked up amp when you don't want it to loud it also hase a easy to use tunner this amp is verry user frindly unlike some moddling and effects carring amps and you can easly ajust effects levels with seprat knobs no confusion olso a pedal to control effects is avalible for about 50 dollars is a great studio or small gig still amp and saves a lot because all of the effects it offers its like having a vox tone labe on top of a amp exactly you can sound like van hallen led zepplin pink floyd lady gaga or the beatles and moreand the price is verry conpetetive to all others in its catagory
A VOX AC 3O is the ultimate all round guitar amplifier. Ask any good guitarist like Hank Marvin Sir Paul of The Beatles. I have 3 VOX amps and the sounds are etherical!
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7Crate
I have played crate amps for years they are reliable and are a key part of my tone. But when it comes down to it the best amp is the amp sounds good to you and that you feel comfortable playing.

8Roland

I have a roland cube 20 xl n its awesome man every thing of world in a nut shell

It's usually integrated with BOSS system effect and of course its portability. Although its small power consumption but its enough to make whole your house get 'bang'! And so the neighbour!

9Bugera
The soul of all valves
I just purchased a Vintage 55 HD... And plugged this baby into my 6505. I can't begin to tell you how great everything sounds... Amazing!
Their amps sound great and their new infinium technology has fixed their issues. I really don't care that their amps are just half priced versions of pricier models. The way I see it, if I can get a great tone, the ability of a Peavey Triple X II, and at half the price, I'm going to go for it.

333XL-INFINIUM for the win!

10Laney
OFC! Laney one of the best amplifier brand, most of famous band in our country used Laney next to Marshall. Small gigs, Big Events etc.
Laney amplifiers have awesome sounds... can be very clean for soft songs and can have crazy distortion for meatal... deserves it's place in the top 5!
Awesome sound quality... You can't say the best but still it can be tough contendor for top5...
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The Contenders

11Orange Amps
Orange amps are beautiful end of story
Brilliant amps and should definitely be further up. They are all tube bringing with that the beautiful, warm, and powerful sound that is shared in a similar way with many Mesa Boogie amps, only for about a third of the price. I would strongly recommend this brand if you're into Coheed and Cambria, Iron Maiden or Metalica.

12Ibanez

13Blackstar
Just can't believe Blackstar is all the way down here. They should be way further up. Blackstar delivers incredible tone and value in all of their amplifiers.
I can't believe this! Blackstar are designed and built by retired Marshall professionals and they have every last bit of knowledge on tube amps, heads, and combos. I own a Blackstar HT-1R, it is 1w but it feels like 100w just the way the Blackstar team have combined their ideas and structures and balanced it out with tubes. And line 6 is further up the list? You are mistaken bro. Another thing. These are bloody expensive and aren't very well known but Two Rock make probably the GREATEST amps ever made and I would kill to fire one up!
Their amps are so crystal clear, it's like having intercourse with a rhino/unicorn hybrid mix.
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14Hughes and Kettner

I have one at home and its so good!
This is the amp anyone should have!

15Randall

I have a rg75g3 plus amp and it has to be one of the best amps I've used, I also had a blackstar amp but the randall was far better in terms of build quality and overall tone. Plus they were used by dimebag. Why aren't they higher up the list?

Very excellent amp, specially for ROCK ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ I recoment it ¡

16Belcat

Alright! Because belcat is belong to the top ten best amps! Rock on!


17Two-Rock

Damn expensive yet somehow they still seem cheap for the value. Nothing like it, so versatile and barelyno sound you can't make with one.

Bloody amazing. You got a real piece of machinery when you got one of these. They may not look like much but when you plug them in...
I would recommend this more than almost anything if you got the money.

18Traynor

19Acoustic

20Behringer

21Krank

I've played a krankestein+ and It rocks! Very warm with good cleans. Perhaps I need to try another krank reference to be more accurate, but krankestein+ sound give a good reference of this brand.

The high gain high-rollers, not ahead of a Mesa, but near the same level. Krank's power level is over 9000!

22Jet City

23Ashdown Engineering

24B-52

25Diezel

26Bogner

27Hartke

28VHT

29Ark Amps
As a co-founder of the company I would say these are pretty great amps;>)

30Divided by 13

31Engl

32Budda

33Epiphone

34DAR

35Van Weelden

36Rivera

I haven't listened to all the amps on the list but found the Rivera Knucklehead blew away every Fender, Marshalla and Mesa in the shop when I was testing things out for the clean blues with a PRS. My daughter playfully plugged in a Gretsch baritone, cranked up the gain and Three Days Grace came screaming out with the finest quality. She agreed the Knucklehead was a win.

It doesn't mean it is "the best amp" since for the blues I might want a Fender Blues Deville 4x10, but that won't handle the broad requirements.

What I have at home... Peavey Bandit (good), Crate V5212 (basically a dual V50, disconnected the effects board, very good. ) Rivera is great. There was another Mesa that was great for the blues as well...

No Dumble fans here?


37Dime

38Fryette

39Dean Markley

40EVH

41Egnater

42Bad Cat

43Maven Peal

44Laboga

45The Valve

46Kustom

47HIWATT
Handmade in the UK, Used by artists like: The Killers, Coldplay, Arctic Monkeys and many more!

48Playmate
This 1 in india

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