Everybody says Michael Angelo just because it was printed in Guitar Magazine. He is very fast and his tone and technique make for perfect clarity but there are much faster guitarists out there like Rusty Cooley and in particular George Bellas.

Bellas plays as fast as Farreri but uses techniques and patterns that are actually difficult. Ferarri only uses two arpeggio sweep shapes whereas Bellas uses them all and plays at the same speed using string skips etc. I also agree, Ferarri's music is without any sould or emotion, just a series of sweeps that sound the same as all of the other sweeps, stuck together without too much thought or direction.

Back to Angelo, he's only really ever come up with one good track and that was No Boundaries (an excellent composition), if only he used that music degree of his he has to come up with more stuff like that he would probably become more of a household name among guitarists.

Rusty Cooley is insanely fast and his runs and sweep patterns are very difficult, plenty of very wide stretches. If you doubt his speed, download one of the instructional clips from his website, it's inhuman!