It is with an immense measure of pride that we are at once able to arise the veil on the ultra-desirable AC15 Heritage Head & Cab, set up in remembrance of the fiftieth Anniversary of VOX guitar amplifiers. In these Modern examples we have laden the exceeding tonal capacity of the VOX Heritage amps into a bundle that in aesthetic terms, is virtually off-the-scale. Who, in all told honesty, would not enjoy to experience one of these beauts decking their studio, stage apparatus or front room, come to that.But make no error, this is no airheaded blond. Within that pretty brain is a hand-wired chef-d'oeuvre of tone genesis. It will carry you by the halcyon years of VOX tone, aggregating the treasured EF86 preamp channel of 1958 with the 1963 Top Boost channel all in one amplifier. With its innovative tone-shaping control enhancements, you have brought among the high-grade VOX guitar amplifiers in the company's fifty year story. And once teamed up with its individual 12" Celestion Alnico 'Blue' fitted out speaker cab, you've a combination able of developing guitar tone assured to leave you goose bumps.
The EF86: The magic VOX tone. Just what is it that causes EF86 grounded VOX amplifiers a few of the most collectable in the universe? Perhaps it's the manner the amp by nature overdrives, almost breathing with a spirit of its own. Maybe it's the transparentness of tone that blandishes a premium prize guitar, or the way it dynamically answers to the nuance of your plucking. Or perhaps it is the stark naked power of the creamy distortion as you trash the amp the whole way up. Whatever it is, there's an undeniable illusion about this period of time of VOX amplification - an age when the merest of circuits brought forth some of the most complex and melodic of tones. Now in short supply, the EF86 Pentode tube is at the eye of this subtle tone. 50 years afterwards, the magic comes back.
The AC15H Head & Cab: an elaborated look. The 15-watt AC15 Hand-wired head boasts two channels of unmistakable VOX tone forcing a individual 12” Celestion Alnico “Blue” speaker domiciliated in a single, duplicate speaker cab. The valve complement is assembled of 1 x EF86, 3 x ECC83/12AX7, 2 x EL84, and 1 x EZ81 (rectifier).
