I haven't heard many Kustom guitar amps so I cant say what they sound like. There was no internet and not all stores could or would special order. Unless you did allot of traveling to different stores you didn't have allot of choice. Stores had dealerships with manufacturers and often only had one budget line. You had more variety with guitar and bass amps, but it mainly came down to the stores you bought them in. If you had some big cash you might be able to afford an Altec setup with A7's For PA's you had Shure Vocal Masters, Kustoms and a few others. The amps sold big because there wasn't anything else you could buy in those ranges anywhere near that price. With the better speakers they make today it might sound better but who really wants to move a 500lb 100w bass amp when you can buy a 500w head that weighs 10lbs, and get a cab that maybe weighs 50 with some high powered speakers. It got some deep tones but farted out easily. It barely got buy in a rock band and even with my 50w fender I could easily bury it. My bass player had a Kasino bass amp which is made by Kustom and just given another name to expand their name.
They were rated for 100W but doubt they put out 50. They had 4 channels with high impedance mic inputs and had volume, treble bass and reverb. If you played clean lounge lizard music you could get by, but by todays standards the vocals you'd get from them wouldn't even be good for bad quality Karaoke. Definitely nothing to get thrilled about. It was all Solid state stuff and as far as sound quality goes its wasn't very good at all. Thay looked cool but that's about as far as it went. I had several PA heads, bass amps and cabs. I used allot of Kustom's and Kasino's back in the day.
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