CH Precision A1.5 two channel power amplifier

Steve Earle’s ‘Copperhead Road’ opens with a monster chord that sounds like a something big and very dead, crashing to the floor of the studio. It’s the sort of heavily compressed thud to send a shudder through the whole room. Most amps get the weight and the thud. Some can separate out a few layers within the thud. A very select few can isolate the bass drum, the rest of the kit, the bass guitar and the keys. CH Precision’s A-1.5 is one of those – and it performs this aural sleight of hand while delivering all the thuddiness of …