Hughes and Kettner Vortex Half Stack

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Overall User Ratings

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 9 out of 10
Value:: 9 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10
Sound:: 9 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 8 out of 10

"A great first gigging amp from H&K"

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 7 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 8 out of 10
Sound:: 8 out of 10
Support:: 9 out of 10

User: a customer from ozemail.com

Submitted: 8/2/2003

Style of Music: Rock (or opera!)

Location: Adelaide, SA, Australia

Feature:
Basic but has all i need two channels etc.

Quality:
Very well built has served me for 18months doing gigs and nothing has ever gone slightly wrong

Value:
Best value low cost half stack

Desirability:
Very good looking, but doesnt have that appeal yet that an amp like a real tube amp has

Sound:
Possibly the best low cost Half Stack around...it has a thick punchy overdrive and a clean spanky clean...very nice especially considering the cost...

Support:
Havent had to deal with them... a good thing

Overall:
Yep its a keeper sounds as good as SS will be for a while

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"Well, the best I played"

Overall:: 10 out of 10
Features:: 10 out of 10
Quality:: 10 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 5/25/2002

Style of Music: Heavy metal

Location: France

Very good looking amplifier, and it sounds great
This amplifier is really versatile, you can play whatever style you want (I do personnally play metal with it and it sounds god)
Vortex's celestion speakers are powerful enough to play in clubs, even with an realy energic drummer...

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"this amp has the sound quality of a mesa boogie but at half the cost"

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 8 out of 10
Quality:: 8 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 10 out of 10

User: a customer from hotmail.com

Submitted: 4/5/2002

Style of Music: alternative

Location: Az

for all the research i did looking for an amp i found that the vortex turned out to be the best bargan for a quality amp

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"Great amps, terrible service"

Overall:: 6 out of 10
Features:: 5 out of 10
Quality:: 7 out of 10
Value:: 7 out of 10
Sound:: 8 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 9 out of 10
Support:: 2 out of 10

Submitted: 4/28/2008

Feature:
just average features, so pretty easy to use and get the tone you want

Quality:
the quality was ok, I played if for 4 years before any problems

Value:
its alot of amp for the money

Sound:
The amp sounds amazing, has great distortion, works well for solos. Has good cleans as well.

Ease of Use:
couldnt be any easier

Support:
Their support is terrible! the amp broke a year ago, and i have been fighting with them for that long to get the parts to fix it! they sold their U.S distribution to Pearl..yes the drum company. you cant get anyone to answer the phone, or return a call, its terrible!

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Hughes and Kettner Vortex Half StackCustomer Review

Overall:: 9 out of 10
Features:: 5 out of 10
Quality:: 8 out of 10
Value:: 10 out of 10
I Want It:: 9 out of 10
Sound:: 10 out of 10
Ease of Use:: 10 out of 10
Support:: 10 out of 10

Submitted: 12/1/2007

Style of Music: ROCK

Musical Experience: PRODUCER/SONGWRITER/PERFORMER

Location: FL

Feature:
It's pretty basic. 2 channels. What else do you want a head to do though?

Value:
And then some!

Sound:
Overdrive sounds amazing. Sounds better than the 2k Marshall head. It has a great warmth and fattness normally captured with tubes. A must even as a backup head.

Support:
Never had a problem. I've had it for 5 yrs and the only thing I had to change was a the fuse in the head 1 time.

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