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The main things to consider when choosing an amp are price, your core tone desired, versatility, reliability, and power. Most amps are designed for several tones and have a tonal signature that is difficult to find elsewhere. This doesn't mean you should or shouldn't like any amplifier's signature characteristic - you may prefer other aspects of it, or a channel or feature that doesn't get the same love as other tones it can produce. However, when trying to figure out what amp you want, it's a lot easier to listen to lots of clips and choose which tones you like and narrow that down to a list of amps that can do that tone well than it is to aimlessly try every amp on every channel.
=== Peavey ===
Peavey's main success came in the early 80's by designing Eddie Van Halen's signature amp: the 5150. Still a favorite in the hard rock and metal community today, it features a world-class distortion tone that fills the entire frequency spectrum and gets exceptionally saturated without getting noisy or suffering from a loose response. Many metal artists use these with a boost in front to get an extremely tight and thick distortion. And they are relatively cheap (in America, at least). The 5150 II added a couple extra controls and improved the clean channel. When the 5150 naming rights reverted back to EVH, Peavey renamed this line the 6505; 6505 = 5150 and 6505+ = 5150 II. To confuse the matter more, Van Halen's own company has made the 5150 III amp, which is a bit different with 3 channels and different response/voicing.
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