WEB/TECH: Handmade Amps Rock out with Matchless Tone

You cant swing a Strat these days without hitting a boutique tube amp with sweet tone. It seems every day someone comes out of his workshop carrying a new rig and spouting buzzwords like handmade and hand-wired. They're all following a path blazed by Matchless. The guys at Matchless all but launched the boutique amplifier craze back in 89. They were hand-wiring amps long after the big guys had turned to faster, cheaper methods and long before the little guys started appearing with the regu...

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