What can I say.. I love technology. I do my due diligence when researching audio gadgets, guitar pickups, amplifiers, headphones, speakers, portable computers and portable displays.
This is the list for those lovely Fender tweed type tones or Marshall bluesbreaker-like tones… the small, boutique style handwired tube amps that pack a punch.
Edit: I did make a top 20 list for both headphones and bluetooth speakers here:
Top 20 bluetooth speakers
Top 20 over ear headphones
best Overdrive pedals
Best small (<15W class A) handwired tube guitar amplifiers
Vox AC-4HW
–Price: $799
-4W
-2x 12AX7, 1x EL84
-12″ Celestion Greenback speaker
-Weight: 30lbs
-top boost
-hot/cool mode
Fender Eric Clapton Vibro-champ
–Price: $999
-5W
-2x 12AX7, 1x 6V6GT, 1x 5Y3GT
-8″ Weber speaker
-Weight: 16lbs
-Tremolo
-Attenuator
Swart Atomic Jr (this is the amp I own)
–Price: $1200
-5W
-1x 12AX7, 1x 12DW7, 1x 6V6GT, 1x GZ34
-8″ Weber speaker
-Weight: 14lbs
-Hot/cool mode
-Spring Reverb
Rivera Venus 3
–Price: $1600
-15W
-2x 12AX7, 2x6V6GT
-12″ Celestion Heritage speaker
-Spring reverb, presence
Bogner New Yorker
–Price: $1600
-12W
-2x 12AX7, 2x 6V6
-12″ Celestion speaker
-4 way rotary switch
Tone King Falcon
–Price: $1700
-12W
-3x 12AX7, 2x 6V6GT
-10″ Eminence Speaker
-Weight: 30lbs
-Attentuator
Dr Z Maz 8
–Price: $1749
-8W
-4x 12AX7, 1x 12AT7, 1x EL84, 1x GZ34
-12″ speaker
-Weight: 37 lbs
Matchless Baby
–Price: $1799
-6W
-1x 12AX7, 1x EL84, 1x 5AR4
-12″ speaker
Divided by 13 CJ11
–Price: $1950
-11W
-2x 12AX7, 2x 6v6GT, 1x 5AR4/GZ34
-12″ Speaker
-Weight: 46lbs
65Amps Lil’ Elvis
–Price: $2495
-12W
-3x 12AX7, 2x EL84, 1x EZ81
-12″ Celestion Greenback speaker
-Weight: 29lbs
-Tremolo speed/intensity
-Attentuator
Marshall 1974X
–Price: $2499
-18W
-3x ECC83, 2x EL84, 1x EZ81
-12″ Celestion speaker
-Tremolo
So.. the options range from the relatively inexpensive $799 4W Vox Handwired AC4HW to the $2500 18W Marshall Handwired 1974X. I personally own the Swart, so I can say for certain that the Amp possesses phenomenal reverb for its size, breaks up rather easily, but has lots of good clean tones as well. And its probably the lightest out of the bunch, at only 14lbs.
