I got a Korean made 2003 Vox 15R in a trade and it sounds at least 3x as good as Chinese made one I used to have that I bought brand new in 2008. The guy I got the Korean Vox off of got it as a birthday gift and never played it once because he couldn't play guitar. I don't know why the Korean sounds so much better but it does.

Anyone else think one is better than the other?

btw, I traded the Chinese Vox for a Fender Tele!

I don't know about the MIK and MIC Pathfinder 15Rs but mine was made in Vietnam and aside from Traynor TS-15 it is the most tubelike sounding and performing solid state amp that I have ever heard.It doesn't have any of the sterile,clinical tone that most solid states have but has the warmth that you usually only hear in tube amps.

That was quite a lop-sided swap,a 15R for a Tele,I only paid $130 for my 15R and I imagine that you most likely paid somewhere in that region-you did great on that deal.Do you have the guy's phone number still?I have some stuff that I can swap...lol.

RE the Traynor TS series: In the mid 70s Pete Traynor started R&D on a solid state amp that would sound and perform just like a tube driven amp.Traynor spent 6 years on this project and in 1980 introduced the TS series of amps starting with the TS-25 and in 1981 came out with the TS-15 and TS-50.I believe that he even made a 100W version too. For some unknown reason the TS series didn't catch on despite the fact that their sound and preformance was practically indistinguishable from a tube amp.The TS-15 had 2 specially engineered 8" speakers that were made by a now defunct Canadian, Toronto based ,company.The TS series also had an ingenious overdrive system,instead of pot it had a 3 position plastic rocker button that had a 5-10-15W setting and you could get the raunchiest kind of tubelike overdriven leads at a volume that wasn't much more than a pocket transister radio.If you ever see a TS series amp for sale,gobble it up and you'll be amazed by the sounds that can come from it.

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