A local music store finally received a couple of Quilter Aviator Mach 3 combo amps yesterday. This is a solid state (half of you just stopped reading this), two channel, 200 watt, 1x12" combo with 6 voices per channel, tremolo and reverb, and it only weighs 21 pounds!
It was good, but not great for me. Part of this was user error, I'm sure- there are a lot of knobs, some of which I haven't experienced, still, it had a "tone" or "timber" that wasn't pleasing to my ear. I was being very critical- I wouldn't want to pay a lot for an amp, eventually not love its sound and have to sell it in the current local used gear market. To be fair, I've spent 40 years tweaking and playing tube amps and half an hour playing this amp.
On the plus side, I have no doubt that it would work very, very well in almost any situation, from playing at home to any gig or jam session. It's capable of being played much louder and much quieter than any tube amp I've played. In fact, if you have to keep it under 90 db or so, it sounds better than a tube amp. It sounds pretty good at TV volumes.
I kind of equate this to switching from dairy milk to almond "milk". At first, I thought it was terrible, then I tried a lot of different types and brands of non-dairy "milk", then I grew to accept as not being milk but as being acceptable, and now I like it and don't like the taste of dairy milk anymore.