Re: What about these guys .....
I did a lot of research on them, reviews, sound clips, descriptions etc when I was looking at what amp to get, and they are NOT clones. Maybe some of the newer ones are, but most of them arent clones. They looks much nicer now with the matching gold knobs and the cooler looking script logo than the black chicken head knobs and block logo. You are correct that they do sound thicker and creamier than your traditional Plexi head. Thats one of the advantages, (well I should say differences) of them, smoother solo tone. Now, with that said, they have a fatter, richer clean tone also compared to the clean tones of some plexis before they hit break-up, which sounds a little on the thin side (still some of the best cleans you can find, but nothing compared to a good tweed or blackface or brownface). A good choice if you want those two updates on a classic Marshall, still very Marshallish, and they have the Hendrix one with the KT66s that doesnt cost 10 grand like the Marsall Hendrix stack does.