What amps have you been surprised by and not looking to sell?

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Marshall Origin 50.

I got the 50C 1x12 combo on sale at a good price; it gets JTM-45, JTM-45/100 and near 1969SLP tones without the cost IMO. I liked it enough to get the 50H head too.
 
Koch Supernova...gave it a try as it is fairly rare and was offered to me very cheap. Was floored by its options, versatility and the quality of available tones.
 
Landry G3 100 watt. I heard some good feedback from a friend. It was marketed and demo'd heavily for the brown sound. I got the amp and, no disrespect to bill, visually I hate the font and all that shit. I plugged in and discovered an amazing modded marshall tone that with some slight adjustments did a great AIC impression along with amazing thrash tones (and also got quite modern for that voicing). I bought the amp for like 1700 dollars. It has outlasted amps 3 times as expensive.
 
Peavey backstage plus

Masterful tone, very impressive note separation, disturbingly haunting mids, intense attack, John Meyer’esque soulful sustain, and dumble like cleans with the most ferocious and blistering Marshall like gain.
 
Marshall JCM 2000 DSL 100
This was the first real professional level tube amp I ever played. Not owned, but played. When I started playing guitar, like most people back then, I spent the first few years playing through Peavey solid state practice amps. However at one point, I remember going with my parents on vacation somewhere and asking them to take me to the local music store after seeing it in the local town. They agreed and I walked in the store and saw this glorious JCM 2000 half stack just sitting there, light from the heavens shining down on it and everything. The store owner sees awestruck kid me gawking at it, laughs, then walks over and hands me a Les Paul Custom, which was another thing I'd drooled over in magazines but had never played, and says “want to try it?” That store owner knew what he was doing. He turned it on, dialed in a good amount of gain, and cranked the volume to like 10:00. I felt like I was controlling thunder and lightning. I swore to myself I would buy one someday. I think I can honestly point to that whole event as probably one of the single most illuminating moments of my whole tone chasing history. Anyway, cut to a couple years back and I finally found a great deal on one in great condition, mid 2000's so it was made after they supposedly fixed the bias drift issue, and I'm happy to say it did live up to the hype I'd built up around it. It's an excellent amp, and it's not going anywhere if I can help it.
 
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I'm still really surprised by the Engl Invader, first version. I just needed a backup amp for a while, while my main amp was on service. Surprisingly good warm clean channel. 3rd channel is just Marshall on steroids but with the Engl flavor, very inspiring
 
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1966 Fender Bassman head. ( AB165). A guy local to me had it for sale. One chord and it was an instant must have.. never selling it.
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Great amps. Probably my favourite Fender.
 
Kind of different but my Superlead clone has been compared with other clones and a few real Superleads. And I even had a Friedman SS. I didn’t expect it to be better than the real deals but it just has it. And I’d never get what it’s worth to me anyway but I wouldn’t sell it for real Superlead money. It’s my favorite and the one I play most by far.

I’m almost tempted to clone my clone.
 
Peavey 5150 III 50w 6l6. The blue channel was orgasmic, but the red channel sucked deeez nutz. Sold it due to the crappy red channel, but tbh kind of regret it, cause I never found a match to the blue channel
 
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