I love my Ashdown ABM EVO II, along with my mini48 & mini15 cabs, it's done around 600-1000 gigs over 5 years and the head has only ever needed one service. Speakers have never gone!
And even when it needed a service this January just gone, Ashdown Customer Service is second to none and was uber cheap!
Never understood the 'Wooly' thing, peoples ears must be dead after years of gigging lol, I plug my passive Jazz basses into my ABM, and keeping everything pretty much flat (some boosted mids), I get growly, clear and fat tone in bucketloads!
Not to mention some smooth tube-overdrive when needed....which isn't that often...but still, nice and natural if you over-use the tube in the preamp!
Love it, never needed to even think about trying other amps!
Si