During our 1980 tour we played the San Diego sports arena. All four of my other amps died during aq power surge... Not my HiWatts! Those two little amps kept rockin' and were heard throughout the arena for the rest of that evening and the rest of that tour. They continued working flawlessly for the next twenty years. I loved my old Marshall. The Orange was cool too. I still have them along with several fender amps. The old HiWatts are still my all-time favorite for tone, power, quality and bullet-proof reliablity. ...Geo Conner

During the Dave Reeves era when Harry Joyce was with the company Hiwatt was the best. You simply could not purchase a higher quality tube guitar amplifier. Military spec wiring, spot welded steel chassis...built like a tank! Loud, clean power that would rattle the pictures off of the walls. Sadly, those days have now passed and the Hiwatt name no longer represents this level of quality.