joseph wrote:Varg wrote:lol, $300 for a solid state head? I wouldn't give you my jizz for a solid state head.
Good luck getting $400 for any cab that's not a new Diezel too.

i would take a solid state gorilla over any of your pro douche engl diezxl fancy pants crap.
That's because you don't care about your tone. You might as well play through a 10" practice amp and have it mic'd for shows. I'll sell you one for $200- save yourself $100. Sounds like shit, but what do you care?
maxxwell wrote:Yes 300 for a solid state, and this is a quality amp that is from the 80s sounds good and is still in near mint.
However your cheaply assembled overly priced amps like engl are run of the mill, not loud not even compeditive. sure you can get a "cool" look and "decent" sound but at the end of the day you just spent a couple hundred dollars more on a average amp.
Cheaply assembled? They're made in Germany by Germans- and they're far from run of the mill. When's the last time you played a Powerball, Savage, Invader, and SE? What's that- you haven't? Ohhh, you heard it from THEY. Yeah, they say a lot of shit don't they?
Not loud? that's weird 'cause anytime I play mine I cut through perfectly. Maybe that's because I know how to dial-in an amp though...an Invader150, Savage120, or any Powerball is going to be louder than your piece of shit no-tone s.s. poweramp. And I'm guessing it's a two channel one, so it's really probably only 60 watts per channel. I'm not going to go into the difference between tube and solid state, because anybody that thinks s.s. sounds better isn't a musician.
I don't know what you even mean by "compeditive" (not the misspelling but what you actually meant).
Take a look at their artist roster; might make you think twice about how non-competitive they are. A fuck-load of people are using ENGL now. Off the top of my head I know, Muhammed from Necrophagist, Evergrey, Dimmu Borgir, Orianthi, Shadowsfall, Jeff Loomis/Nevermore + Chris Broderick, Dying Fetus, Vinnie Moore, Born of Osiris, Black Dahlia Murder, Michael Romeo (Symphony X) Soilwork, The Haunted, Darkane, Stratovarius, Chris from Scale the Summit, Matt from Decrepit Birth, Obscura, Ihsahn, etc.
That's a pretty wide variety of notable users. I didn't even know Sunn made non-bass amps.
An ENGL isn't going to run anymore than a Mesa Mark V or Freyette (formerly VHT) or Hughes and Kettner. Depending on what you get, it could be cheaper. Face it, ENGLs sound awesome as fuck and look cool as fuck. And who the hell would want to play ANY amp from the '80s??? Not to mention a solid state, lol.