The 7 Best Amplifier heads (2023 reviews)

We consider a amplifier head to be a worthy investment in the long run. We are here to help you choose the right one for your purposes from all the best available products in market today.

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PRS guitars Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

Vox Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

Marshall Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

Orange Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

PRS Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

Diezel Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

Boss Amplifier Head Buy: READ REVIEW

PRS guitars Amplifier Head

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The prs guitars amplifier head is capable of outshining several other head featured in this list in overall features for the price point. With 6 preamp tubes, it has so much saturation and it sounds so much louder than a 15 watt amp. It cleans up chest-thumping chugs to searing leads and everything in between. It makes sweet sounds. It has its own sound, at least on the clean channel, and is very pedal-friendly. It's quite versatile as well.

Power and standby switches are solid and the quality appears to be excellent. If it bugs you and you would like to go to a traditional leather strap, there’s a great how-to video available showing the mod, as well as others showing the tube substitutions.

• A skimpy, unpadded, non-waterproof deal that is not road-worthy in the least
• Well built, heavy gauge steel construction
• Sounds great at low to mid level volume

Vox Amplifier Head

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The vox amplifier head is capable of outshining several other head featured in this list in overall features for the price point. The New VOX Reactive Attenuator reduces wattage while retaining tone. In the master section, there's the distinctive vox tone cut and master volume that allow you to obtain a variety of sounds ranging from the extraordinarily sparkling vox clean tone to a powerful, raw overdrive. The AC30ch utilizes 12ax7 tubes in the preamp and el84 tubes in the power amp. It provides treble and bass tone controls. The amp also takes pedals very well on the normal channel.

The top boost channel on its own with the built in reverb has a nice creamy overdrive that's pleasing. The reverb sounds great as well.

• Good investment for long term
• Lot of satisfied buyers

Marshall Amplifier Head

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The marshall amplifier head might be a relatively new release, but it's still nothing short of impressive this year, thanks to multiple price cuts and added new features over the past few months. There is not a ton of onboard gain in this amp. This produces a distinctive, old school crunch that comes from power tube distortion more than preamp tube gain. It cleans that are easily pushed into a sweet growl. The clean tones are amazing, crank the gain and it breaks up in a lovely 70's way. It’s far from perfect but it’s got warm shimmering cleans that are easily pushed into a sweet growl.

The Origin 20 also works well with pedals. This is a great amp head, with the classic plexi tone. It covers it all with ease.

• Has a real shimmering “british” sound even through the jensen black back
• All tube, very responsive, early marshall tone
• Great for dirty blues and classic rock
• Very vintage sounding, the plexi tone at your disposal

Orange Amplifier Head

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Next on the list, we've got yet another head that manages to win our hearts. It's the orange amplifier head and it's widely considered as head that has the most suitable features. The Orange Ad30htc amp channel 1 has a thick, creamy, classic voice that barks like a rottweiler when pushed into the tone zone. It has a tighter, springy and slightly faster character with a little more upper mids and a bit more gain. It comes with an angry edge in a killer.

The tube guitar amp head offers 2 dual stage channels with completely separate signal paths for convenient channel switching. It does clean really well, does the low gain to medium gain tones on both channels fairly well, with ch2 being a bit thinner and a bit higher gain. They create a really good amplifier, but only within a hard rock perspective.

• Good brand reputation
• New and hot release

PRS Amplifier Head

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The prs amplifier head is capable of outshining several other head featured in this list in overall features for the price point. The PRS HDRX 50 is driven by a pair of EL34EH power tubes, the best pre-amp tubes available, and a custom-designed Straight Edge output transformer lends an in-your-face quality to your playing. It allows players to more easily dial in their distortion level and tone by blending the lead and bass channels’ individual volume controls, bringing more modern convenience to the amp.

The Custom-designed straight edge output transformer lends an in-your-face quality to your playing. It is heavily inspired by one of hendrix’s personal amps, purportedly used at woodstock, which paul reed smith and prs amp designer doug sewell were able to study in. The Familiar 3-band equalizer gives you ample tone shaping. It has also designed matching 2x12 and 4x12 cabinets for the hdrx amp family.

• Achieve everything from clean chime to crunchy grime by altering picking pressure
• Heavily inspired by hendrix's woodstock-era amp
• Presence control for dialing in your upper harmonics
• Updated power supply and filament design safeguards against unwanted hum and hiss

Diezel Amplifier Head

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate head. The diezel amplifier head is exactly that - it's a simple head that hits all the right notes.

• Watt 2-channel all-tube guitar amplifier head with series effects loop
• Good investment for long term

Boss Amplifier Head

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We would, of course, be remiss if we didn't mention boss amplifier head for regular usage. Waza amps and companion cabinets are rooted in the long history of guitar amp development, and offer the original sound of the very first rock stack amp. It comes with the waza amp series, which breaks new ground in the amp market to realize the ultimate in rock guitar tone. It comes with the ideal rock sound for gigging.

• Three-way amplifier selector knob for instant character variations
• One of the new comers and featured product