| I personally have a problem with Eden stuff, and that problem is that their clip indicators/overload protection comes on way too early and way too often. I have never been able to push an Eden head past 12 on the master without it deciding, like a spoiled child, that it's had enough of life.
This is on Eden gear that I've owened (several Nemesis combos, ENX-260 head) as well as larger rigs that I have rented on multiple occasions and the model numbers of which I misremember. I will say though, that there have been several times in my playing experience when I had to stand in front of an Eden rig and marvel at the clarity of tone.
Mesa gear on the other hand, I have never had any real problems with. It goes loud. It goes low. It sounds great. It does the business, and apart from a guitarist I encountered by chance who was having woes with his Stiletto head, has a pretty good reputation for reliability.
There is a small problem with Mesa gear though, in that it sounds like Mesa gear. I have never been able to EQ an uncoloured sound from my Walkabout Scout, despite being part-time soundman and it being equipped with three bands of parametric AND three bands of semi-parametric. Of course, I like the Mesa tone, so that doesn't really bother me - but it might bother you.
So it comes down to what you need. If you need buckets of power night after night, and tone is secondary, go Mesa. If you're not a crank-it-to-11 kinda guy, a guy who really cares about his tone, you might want to give Eden a shot.
YMMV, IME, ETC.
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