Harley Benton TUBE5 Celestion 3-stars Reviews

It's ok for the price but not that impressive

As far as low wattage tube amps go, there are not many in the market. This is a very decent amp, but I found the 1-watt Marshall DSL1 to be a lot more impressive, with more features and the price is very close.

The lack of eq, means you need a drive or eq pedal in front to really shape the tone.

It is loud, even at 1-watt. There is little change in volume between 1 and 5 watts, but it feels that this amp delivers better at 1 watt. It would have been more useful as a bedroom amp if it was 1-watt with the option to reduce to 0.1 watts.

The overall tone is rather bright - this if you like it or not comes down to preference.

At 5 watts connecting it to an external cabinet makes a big difference!

I played it for two days straight - works well as a pedal platform and it starts getting a crunch with the volume turned to 7 and above.

I think for small live gigs this can be used either on its own or connected to another cabinet.

Harley Benton TUBE5

Equalizer missing. The build quality is good. The quality of the materials is low. UPS delivery is terrible. Price quality, you can not argue. Combo amp sound for clean sound and crunch. Not much overload.