Matchless Amplifiers is a Los Angeles based company which designs and makes electric guitar amplifiers, specializing in class A tube circuitry.

Matchless Amplifiers, like many other entrepreneurial stories, started out on a kitchen table. That table belonged to Rick Perrotta in 1989. He was the initial force behind Matchless along with Mark Sampson, Steve Goodale, and Chris Perrotta.

During the 1970s & 80's, an undesirable trend had developed throughout the guitar-amplifier industry. It had switched from sonically pleasing vacuum tubes and point-to-point wiring to transistors and circuit boards. While the industry may have found this more profitable, it had drawbacks; poor sound quality and unsatisfied customers. The transistorized amps lacked the warmth, depth and richness as found in the earlier amplifiers. By this time, guitar players were starting to search for better sound... so the hunt was on.

Rick and Mark started working on their first prototype with the understanding that it had to sound substantially better than their predecessors. Realistically, that meant back to tubes, hand-wiring, handcrafted transformers and large carbon-comp resistors. It also had to be built like a tank in order to take the rigors of the road while touring. Mark understood this very well, as he was always repairing road-beaten amps for other artists back then. He didn't want their newly created amp to fall into the same category.