actually i just played both amps for the 1st time last week while at dave friedman's shop on my way thru calif...hard to compare them(or say that one is better than the other) as they are quite different from each other,tonally,imo...the BE-100 sounds like a classic,old school hotrodded marshall plexi tone.the CCV sounds more like a refined bogner ecstasy type tone with a bit of mesa boogie in it.both can cover a wide range of tones.i played the BE-100 first,then the CCV,then went back to the BE-100.i def preferred the BE-100,but that's just me...