Fender Hot Rod Series Blues Junior III 15W 1x12 Tube Guitar Combo Amp  

I would give it a 10 but nothing is perfect. This is not an amp with a lot of features. If you want a modeling amp this is not for you. I will tell you that if your wanting a great sounding amp that can get LOUD you need to give it a try. I have a 65 watt SS amp that sits right next to it and this little 15 watt amp makes it sound bad. Hook up a pedal board to it and you can get some wonderful sounds out of it.

I havent had it but a few weeks but no problems yet. I have a Fender 65 watt amp that is about 6 yrs old sitting beside it that I have never had an issue with. If I get that type of life out of this one I wont complain.

It is expensive, but all tube amps are. If you are looking for an amp with a lot of buttons, knobs, presets and plase a lot of value on those type of features than this is not for you. I personelly dont need them and can get those sounds out of this amp with a few tweeks of my pedal board.

So far I am extremely happy with this amp. It has a great sounds, nice tones and it gets plenty loud enough for my needs. I have a Fender american standard strat sss, a Fender american select strat hss, a fender MIM Tele, a epipone Les Paul custom, and a epiphone sg-400 and they all sound great on this amp. My son has a inexpensive Ibanez RG that sounds great on it also. If you try to compare this amp to a modeling amp and are one of those people that like having all those buttons, knobs, presets and place a lot of value on those things you will be disappointed with this amp. If your wanting a great basic tube amp that you can plug your guitar & pedal board straight in and get some great sounds out of than give it a try. I know a man owns a music store that buys and sales amps everyday. He has 20 different amps made by different name brand manufactures in different sizes in his store and can play any of them that he wants at any time. He plays on this same exact amp 90 percent of the time. That has got to tell you something about this model amp.

I bougt this version iii. The features are simple/straight forward. One channel amp, reverb, master and volume which is important to me for an amp to have. Reverb seems to have a problem sometimes. I bought this amp used and the reverb turns on only when it's tilted back or forward. Not a big deal to me since I hardly use the reverb. but I still want to get that looked at.

The amp seems solid except for the reverb. Other than that the amp seems like its built to last.

New I find the amp to be high priced but at the same time it's a tube amp and you get that nice thick sound of a tube amp. Once you get a tube amp you'll realize that a solid state amp can never give you that smooth thick creamy sound that tubes give you.

The amp is a great buy. I owned a cheap crate v33 212 that was extremely loud it had a nice tube sound as well but only on the clean channel. I wanted something smaller but still loud enough for the band. This amp is perfect for it. I love the tube overdriven and clean that this amp produces. Reverb sounds nice when working.

I've owned a jet city 20watt stack, I've owned a blackstar 5THR 5watt with Reverb, A laney Cub 12 a Blackheart 3/5 watt combo (which I still have)and a Vox acc i5 watt combo with reverb and tremelo and NOTHING and I MEAN Nothing comes close to the clean and crunch sounds of the Fender Blues Jr. It is by far the best soundind tube amo you will ever own so save yourself some time and effort and stop right here because there isn't an amp built that can compare to the blues Jr for normal listening levels. You can pau a LOT more or you can pay a LITTLE less but you can't find a BETTER amp. This is it. This is the one all the pros take with them when they go anywhere because nothing can quite compare to the sweet, sweet sound of a Blues Jr.

The III version is the best yet and the speaker is a GREAT improvement but you'll allways find someone who throws in a celestion this or a Canibus Rex or a Patriot osr some other crap when what's in it sounds just find. Some people are compulsive/obsesive about there speaker and I've had them all and I like the new Emminence just fine the tubes are sturdier and even the handle improved..The sparkle mod is aplus and I personally LOVE the Reverb on this amp. This amp will last you a lifetime..Change the tubes every 2 years (or more often if you gig with it) and this amp will out live you!

Ther is no better value for the money and it's worth a whole lot more than that being the best 15 watt amp on the market bar none and taking into account al the 5 watters out there that sound good but don't compare to a blues Jr and that includes Blackstar. This is the amp that all other are measured by as it should be because there isn't a better tube amp made unless you want to spend in the high price range

The best 15watt Tube amp in the market actually the best tube amp in the market for the price range and well worth every penny they charge for it. In my opinion there isn't an amp that can even come close to this one.

Blue Junior III is really a big improvement over the older Blues Junior amps. Better control panel makes for quick changes easy. The tone of these amps are awesome, but, I will stick to my own distortion pedal for now.

Easy to move from here to there and the balsy sound just gets better with every change Fender makes.

This amp takes a beating and keeps rolling on as if nothing happened.

I have moved this amp on its side and thanks to the tube keepers they stay put.

Biggest improvement made on the Fender Blues Junior III over the older unit is the tube hold downs.

Could`nt find a better value than these little guys. They pack lots of punch and the quality is miles ahead of any competitor when considering the price of one of these.

I will buy another if anything were to happen to it.

Quality is the best value on the market.

Great sound  with  volume and master volume controls , fat switch, treble, bass, middle and reverb the 8 rating is the reverb which has a thin sound to it

Quality appears good except for he reverb which I jus keep set at 2

I purchased a level 3 and you can't beat the price for the  amp

As noted sounds fantastic, portable, great for  playing  just about anything.  Just was not crazy about the reverb it has a ring to it