Vox AC30H2 Tube Guitar Combo Amp?

[Don]

Anyone tried or heard this bad boy? I'm narrowing my new amp purchase to this one and a Fender 57 twin the vox has some more options but the Fender is supposedly the AMP of Amps?

http://www.voxamps.co.uk/heritagecollection/ac30h2.asp

[idiotbear]

Meh. There is no "amp of amps", IMHO. It entirely depends what you want to play. An AC30 and a Twin don't sound much like one another. What kind of sound are you after?

[williamh]

I think these amps look pretty cool and would love to have one.  I hope to try and acquire one by the end of the year.

[idiotbear]

I've owned an AC30, and sure, I liked it. I'm more of a JCM800-era Marshall man, really - I love the sound of Fender -> Marshall. I also love the sound of Fender -> HH PA amp. Which, I suppose, is why I have both in stereo 

The AC30 is very, very big in both sound and weight. A few small things that pissed me off about mine: those chicken-head knobs are way too easy to knock. I was forever having to dial my sound in AGAIN after someone knocked it off. Also, I hate that the two channels aren't footswitchable. I also didn't like the way the amp sounded with my main dirtboxes (RAT and Big Muff). But YMMV - a lot of people love dirt through their AC30s.