[quote name='4 Strings' post='814966' date='Apr 22 2010, 02:47 PM']Try a Hiwatt first, Orange is great, but Hiwatt tick it for me.[/quote]
friend of mine is proud owner of vintage 100 w Hiwatt (DD104 i think). it´s a killer amp, especialy with big cab. We tested it on svt 8x10 and it was pure rock power. but there´s a big BUT for me...it´s "only" 100 w so it has not so much headroom for clean and deep sound. It can be agressive, loud, great distorted and cutting thru everything, but it can´t be soft and polite. maybe 200w versions with more headroom will be much better.
Orange is great amp with no dipsute, I think that most of the amps are great and it is only about preferences of the one player.