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@dooks
High five Harold. That's always been my motto too.
To be fair, I've always had pretty nice electric amps, I've just never been in the market for acoustic stuff before. I used to buy guitar mags all the time in my younger days and I'd read every page except the one bit I'd always without exception skip over was the acoustic amp reviews. BORING! hehe.
Tell you what though, this whole experience of trying to buy relatively niche kit online has really highlighted to me the lack of informed and trusted reviews of the type I used to get from Guitar & Bass mag etc. For example, with those new GK bass amps, there's a real dearth of detailed technical data online, no professional reviews anywhere, only a smattering of erratic and unfathomably subjective write ups on US message boards. It's really hard to tell what the deal with this stuff is based on that chatter. Me and the bass player even did the rounds in Denmark Street last week and talked to a few people. It's amazing how little the people in the shops know about what's going on in the market. They seem to have their supplier deals sorted out with the usual big players, (and manly catering to budget and low-end stuff it seems) and they just try and flog you that. Ask them about anything else that isn't the two brands of amp they stock and they either try and bullshit you or or just refuse to engage.
There's got to a market for trusted, informed and reasonably objective gear reviews online hasn't there? You listening Rickster?