EVH Stealth 100 vs EVH Iconic 

Since the Iconic falls in the middle of the 50 and 100 watt amps, it would be cool to see a comparison with the Iconic and the 50 watt stealth. Plus their prices are a little more comparable. Love all these comparisons you've been doing, especially all the amps linked to Eddie Van Halen. Keep up the awesome work🤘

The EL34 EVH vs the stealth vs iconic next would be killer 😉

Great job and your time spent making the videos Jarrod...excellent comparison! Both amps do their justice respectively and is really dependant on someone's budget in the end. Love my Stealth 100...no regrets. Cheers my friend 🎸😃

i love how you made/released this one now and not last year. i have a stealth 50w so i really wanna try the iconic at some point. great video.

I had both these amps and ended up keeping the iconic. The only channel on the stealth I liked was the blue channel and once I realized I could dial the overdrive on the green channel to sound like the stealth blue channel, game over. I can’t stand how there’s no midi on the 100w stealth and the dumb DIN footswitch jack. The “Easter eggs” on the stealth aren’t very practical in a live or rehearsal context unless you love tweaking dials constantly during your set when you’re going back and forth between channels. The iconic has a great volume boost option, better clean channel, the presence actually does something before 3 o’clock, has TRS channel switching that plays nice with other equipment, 1/4 power mode so you can truly play it at bedroom levels and it sounds good, and with an EQ in the loop you can easily get it to sound exactly how you want. The Iconic in my opinion punches way above its weight price-wise, and I felt perpetually underwhelmed by the 100w stealth for how much money I dropped on it. Did it sound killer? Sure, but it was hard to stomach paying the better part of 3k to find I only really loved one channel on it. It just isn’t close to being 3x the amp the Iconic is even though it costs 3x more. To me the 100w stealth is an amp for “tone chasing” that personally missed the mark for me, and the Iconic is a practical workhorse that has seemingly all the right features for rehearsal or gigging. I will say I really don’t like the reverb on the Iconic though. But that’s about my only complaint.

The real winner here is the Iconic. For the money IT CANNOT BE BEAT. The iconic is the Rocky balboa of the guitar amp world.

Came for the sick sweeps stayed for the rest. awesome as usual.

Excellent demo, very informative.

I have the iconic and really enjoy it at what I consider bedroom volume. I am looking at getting the 100w stealth, how does it compare at lower volumes? I don’t live in an apartment but have really close neighbors.

Love my stealth! Been thinking of adding the Iconic, as it was Eddie's last endeavor.

great review...nice wall unit in your living room!

Great video my man, the Stealth wins, but it’s like a heavy weight vs a lower weight class. Not a fair fight usually. But the Iconic sounds great, definitely much better than I expected 🤘🏻😎🤘🏻

the iconic sounds great here

Great vid! (as always). One could safely assume the EVH STEALTH, was gonna get the win overall, though the ICONIC is no slouch. Very curious now, how close the ICONIC would come to the STEALTH when pared with an EVH Overdrive pedal.

Love your videos man 🤘been playing a lot of The Black Dahlia Murder riffs these days and saw on them their recent tour in Montreal a few weeks back🤘🔥🤘They using the EVH Iconic 80 watt (4 of them)!!! I believe Brandon is using a Direwolf to boost it. Have the Marshall DSL20HR , Badlander 25, Stealth LBX and Peavey Invective MH … I think the Iconic would make a good addition 🤔 after watching this video I just want this Iconic even more… sounds great .. that red and blue channel sounded awesome 🤘🔥🤘 got my Mudkiller ready to go 👍 awesome video 💯💥 cheers 🍻

Hi jarrod. I been drooling over the iconic combo lately but I already own the 50 watt 6l6 and 100 watt stealth. Should I get the iconic anyway. I'm liking the combo because I can pick it up and take it anywhere licketysplit. Or should I get the head.

Thanks for doing this video, was waiting for this one! Fair conclusions... I have the Iconic and LOVE it... even among several other more expensive high gain heads in my collection. Can't really beat that Stealth though... but I can't justify paying all the extra tax for American amps (here in Australia) along with the high price along with inflation price hikes at the moment which comes to $4000Aud ($2775US) brand new. When I see it on the used market for just over half that price I'll nab one lol. (might take a few years)

Wow man really surprised at how well the iconic did ....can't lose for the money there

@TONEWARSgearshow i have the iconic, the 5153 OG 50 and a 6505+ do you think i should invest in the stealth. Is it really worth the money if i have the amps i already have?

Awesome video, dude! I keep changing my mind between 3 options: ICONIC 40W combo for reduced price (ex-display) £550, the 50W Stealth for £1100, or the Engl Fireball 25W for £780. It's just for bedroom play but man, I can't make up my mind lol. I assume given these options you'd choose the Stealth every time?

I would love to hear the iconic go up against the stealth, but this time with the iconic go into an MXR custom comp deluxe compression (or any compression pedal of choice) pedal then into amplifier as well into boost. I bet a compression pedal would really make the iconic really come alive.

Great job man, I love the stealth. Iconic is good for the pricepoint.

Could test EVH iconic versus Stealth 50w

why the low frame rate on your videos?

I could be wrong but it seems to me the Iconic has the ability to cut in a mix a bit better. Almost a nod to a more Marshall sound. But i don’t live for the chug lol. In my book Iconic for the win. But that’s just me.

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The Iconic did better than expected... the Stealth still took a commanding lead at about 12:00 in on the video.

This shootout went pretty much as I would expect. Both amps sounded very workable. The Stealth always sounds killer, and the Iconic held it's own. Yeah, big price difference between those amps. So you have to ask yourself: is the Stealth really worth the extra price. For me, nope. Absolutely not. But maybe for some people, the answer would be "yes". I would still rather have an ENGL Fireball 100 over both of these amps. But the ENGL is still way too much money for me at $1,900. If I needed an amp right now, I would order the new Boss Katana Artist head for $569. It does more than I need, at a price I can afford. No tubes to mess with, and it's NOT "Made in China" or "Mexico". 😁

Anyone else hear crackling in the clean channel in both amps?

After owning the Iconic for a couple weeks I'll say this...don't use it with Greenback speakers lol. The high-mid frequency is ear piercing and can't be dialed out. Otherwise...it's great lol. ...and I want a stealth 50 too now. Thanks 😅

100w Stealth is allways pissed, that's a mean amp

You should get your wife in to do the switching and have a blind test 😜👍🏻

Man, both sound amazing. I think Stealth is a bit more modern metal; sounds more compressed and tight. Iconic a bit more open and gritty. I think Iconic is better for more classic metal and general hard rock. Iconic can do modern metal, but Stealth is a lot better at it. Plus, it has 3 channels. Iconic has reverb, noise gate and the internal Boost function which is pretty useful. Also... Stealth is over 2x the price so there's that.

Seems like the Iconic has more bite... In a good way

The EVH stealth sounds way better in all channels, the 5150 sounds real good too but the EVH stealth is much better in my opinion of course.

I'm getting the stealth as the ultimate giging and jamming amp. that external bias feature is great for self maintenance.

Without the boost pedal there was no fight at all. After you engaged the boost there still was no fight. Stealth for the KO!

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Why do you add a pedal what is it doing exactly to the amp and not the guitar signal?

You know where they went wrong with the Iconic, they should have copied the schiit freya preamp. Have the ability to have preamp tubes, or take the tubes out and default to onboard jfet/mosfet preamp. Ship the amplifiers out without tubes, and let the owner populate with tubes if they want.

Your channel would grow if you move the camera closer to you and tried different camera angles. I know how dumb that sounds but trust me....

Every champion gets in the ring with a bum to up his record.

Great video both amps are great I would like the Stealth 100 watt, I have the Iconic ,I am kinda wondering on EVH el34 model too 100 watt! Both are killer. Thanks Jarrod 🎸🎛🥁👋

03:25 "More fuller" makes no sense. It's either "fuller" or "more full" :P