I'll vouch for the quality of Traynor amps. I own the YCV40, and paid $599.00 CAD for it a year and a half ago. I'm not sure if the price has gone up from that, but that translates to about $365 USD (using an exchange rate of 1.65).

It's 40 watt all tube amp, with vintage distortion and reverb. Two channel with separate tone controls for each channel, two-button footswitch (one's a boost switch), 12" Celestion red label speaker, Accutronics extra long (or something like that) reverb springs.

It has a great crisp clean tone, although the Celestion does have a bit of a piercing high end - but some people dig that, or you could eliminate it with an equalizer or compressor or by turning down the treble knob. The distortion is wicked, too - a nice rumbling vintage distortion when the gain's at about 5, or hard rock at 10.

Well, I'm done raving. Check it out.