If you love small American combos but wish for more headroom, reliability, and tone options, you are the target market for the Sportsman.- Guitar Player, April 2012
Best in Show, Guitar & Bass magazine's coverage of the NAMM 2012 tradeshow.
This is one mean-sounding amplifier.- Guitar & Bass, April 2012
And while many tube amplifiers promise to deliver satisfying tones at optimal studio and bedroom levels, few succeed as admirably as the Mercury.The entire review is available here: Out of This World (931kb pdf).
The Sportsman’s ability to nail vintage, clean, and overdrive sounds—and move beyond them in breadth of tone—arguably makes this Carr a contemporary classic.The entire review is available at premierguitar.com: Carr Amplifiers Sportsman.
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The Mercury is by far and away the most versatile amp in this roundup. If you could only take one amp to a recording session, you could be confident that you'd have all bases (short of death metal) covered. Quality costs, especially when you buy American, but valve amps don't come much better than this.- Guitar & Bass, November 2011 On newsstands now.