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I tried one out a little while back, but with a guitar, not a harp mic.
It's a nice little single ended Class A that's a bit of both tube and solid state. They say it's a 15 Watt, but with a 6L6 power tube, I think it's more reasonable to consider it around 8-10 Watts. Good for tinkering around the house, but not much omph for gigging (on its own). It has an effects loop, something I really like about newer amps. It's nice to put your timed effects (e.g. delay) after the preamp to keep from muddying up the echos. I've been putting loops in my own amps.
The amp runs fairly clean, but again the lower headroom on the clean setting limits its ability to break through the crowd in a club. The transistorized boost switch adds a nice amount of grit, though it seemed to my ear to lack some of the sponginess of a pure tube sound with the boost on. Some of that might owe a bit to the solid state rectifier, too. I didn't like the reverb. It seemed to me a bit too "springy", but I'm used to my old '65 Princeton Reverb (my favorite).
The sound was not bad for the price, and I wouldn't hesitate to use one for a practice amp if one was gifted to me. It looks pretty cool, too! That said -- again -- I didn't get to try it with a harp, and I've found with most amps that changes everything.