Gear of the Year RESULTS: Best Amplifier of 2013 Revealed

The results are in, and we can reveal the top five amps of 2013   03-Dec-13

Ladies and gentlemen, the results are in for the SonicState Gear of the Year Awards, and throughout December we will be proudly revealing the winners.

First up, we'd like to reveal the Gear of the Year Award for the best amplifier of the year. Tens of thousands of you voted for your favourite guitar products released this year, and there were some amps which clearly stood out from the competition.

Many of the amps which won the most votes from our readers are personal favourites at SonicState; ones we've given very postivie reviews for this year.

The criteria for the SonicState Gear of the Year Awards 2013 is that the product had to be released and available on the market between November 2012 - November 2013... and that the product had to offer stunning tone.

We took the top five most popular amps in the public vote, and then a panel of editors, writers and reviewers chose which would be the winner, and which would be the runners-up.

We're really happy with the top five, we hope you are too, so let's get on with it and reveal the top five amplifiers in the SonicState Gear of the Year Awards 2013.

5. Blackstar HT Metal 100

For a 'metal amp', the Blackstar HT Metal 100 is actually incredibly versatile, with a pleasant and useable clean sound, and you can even coax out classic crunchy rock and roll sounds at low or high volumes.

But this amp is all about the high gain, and thanks to Blackstar's frankly genius ISF feature, you can get anything from British heavy metal sounds a-la Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden, right up to US thrash and modern scooped metal.

Certainly a worthy recipient of fifth place in this year's Gear of the Year Awards, and we've seen it sold for as low as £600/$980, which is incredible value for money.

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