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Positive Grid Spark 2 vs Positive Grid Spark 40: what real owners say

Real owners rate these about evenly: 53% of 85 Positive Grid Spark 2 owners recommend it, vs 54% of 52 for the Positive Grid Spark 40.

Verdicts aggregated from Reddit, enthusiast forums, and YouTube owner comments — affiliate reviews excluded. Sample sizes differ; judge accordingly. How we score

Positive Grid Spark 2

53%of 85 owners recommend
53% recommend · 18% neutral · 29% don't
Owners praise
  • Massive library of amp models and effects with near-endless tone options
  • Companion app and AI tone creation make dialing in sounds easy
  • Great for practice and jamming, including play-along backing tracks
Owners complain about
  • Buggy app and firmware, including the AI sometimes failing to load
  • Quality and hardware issues for some, like volume dropping out or dead units
  • Stock tones run bass-heavy and need EQ tweaking to clean up
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Positive Grid Spark 40

54%of 52 owners recommend
54% recommend · 4% neutral · 42% don't
Owners praise
  • Excellent value practice amp
  • Huge tone variety via app
  • Fun for jamming and learning songs
Owners complain about
  • Reliability issues, hiss or cutout
  • Not loud enough to gig
  • Thin, digital sound versus tube amps
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What Positive Grid Spark 2 owners say

“The Spark wins all around. Sonically, functionally, the form, the support... the whole ecosystem just works.”
— @ArmandoVegaTV on YouTube
“One can not describe the enormous sound of the Spark without being in the room with it, very amazing, I have let a lot players hear mine and they are genuinely impressed once they hear it in person.”
— @RandyRocker56 on YouTube
“the Spark 2 which had many issues that were eventually fixed through firmware updates... it clearly wasn't ready for prime time when it first rolled out their doors”
— SherbetUnusual199 on Reddit

What Positive Grid Spark 40 owners say

“What I love most about Spark is when I want to learn a song, I search the cloud for the song.”
— @jrigwald on YouTube
“The best practice amp I have ever owned. Full stop.”
— @l-Libertine on YouTube
“The first built-in practise pattern I tried has got wrong chord positions in the grid - pretty much useless for a beginner, who *depends* on the practise material to be _correct._”
— @Noone-of-your-Business on YouTube