Best deal on today's market for a small, sweet tube amp.
Sweet sound, definitely gets better with some playing time, certainly benefits from a compressor/sustainer. In keeping with the budget ethos, a Behringer compressor is terrific. Easy speaker swap, but all the videos I've seen haven't convinced me the Celestion is lacking in any way. That's what your guitar's tone control is for.
I've mostly played clean, it's plenty strong at 1 watt, so I can't say much about crunch. I will say a decade ago I owned both the small Vox and Fender 1W/5W amps that were out at the time, and I think this sounds much nicer at a great price.
Tube amps with no effects are a different beast from solid state, and beginning guitarists might be put off by what seems like a boring, plain sound. Check out a few vids on how to wrangle tones from a tube amp, get a couple cheap fun pedals, and I guarantee you'll never look back.
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