Supro 1620RC Delegate Custom 25W 1x12 Combo vs Supro 1695TJ Black Magick

The Supro 1620RC Delegate Custom 25W 1x12 Combo and the Supro 1695TJ Black Magick are both amplifiers sharing mid-forward, dynamic, gritty. The Supro 1620RC Delegate Custom 25W 1x12 Combo leans edge of breakup and lush.

Similarity
citedBlended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.

80% — very similar

Shared genres
citedGenres both listings are associated with.
  • Classic Rock
  • Indie
  • Garage Rock
  • Blues
Shared tone character
citedDerived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.
  • mid-forward
  • dynamic
  • gritty
  • harmonically rich
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Price
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$1672.92via Reverb

Description

The Supro 1620RC Delegate Custom is a 25-watt 1x12 valve combo built by hand in the United States, positioned as a premium model in the Supro line. At 25 watts in a single-twelve cabinet it sits between the small vintage-reissue combos and the higher-headroom models such as the Jupiter, offering enough power for club use while still reaching amp breakup at a workable volume. Supro's heritage lies in the Valco-built American amplifiers of the 1950s and 60s, known for midrange-forward character and strong touch response rather than the scooped cleans of contemporaneous Fenders. It suits blues, roots and classic rock players who want hand-built American amp construction in a practical gigging format.

The Supro 1695TJ Black Magick is a variant of the Black Magick line, the range modelled on Jimmy Page's 1959 Supro combo that produced most of the guitar tones on Led Zeppelin I. Like the rest of the family it is a 25-watt all-tube Class A design built around 6973 output tubes, which give the distinctive Supro midrange grind and strong touch sensitivity, and Supro rate the Black Magick circuit as the highest-gain amplifier in their catalogue. Detailed independent coverage separating this particular variant from the other Black Magick models is limited, so the description here stays with what applies to the circuit as a whole.

Tonal lean
  • edge of breakup
  • lush
  • spring
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Good for
citedOccasions this gear suits — judged per model, or derived from its wattage, connectivity and category.
  • Practice
  • Studio
  • Worship
  • Live
  • Studio
  • Worship
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