wow, people are starting to get touchy... :o
anyway, my two cents is (i've said it before and i'll say it again) that you have to try out everything (or at least as much as possible) in the one place, head to head, with the same guitar.
Unless something totally sucks so much that it's blatantly obvious, (with me at least) if something is even half-decent, i'll think it's better than it is, unless i get to compare it to something better.
even if an engl, or a laney, or whatever is out of your price range (if the guys in the shop will let you) try them out too, to see if they're worth saving up for, over the line 6, or whatever else you're looking at...