My favorite Fender amps (used with 60/61/62 Strats) were Black and later 70’s (75-76?) Silver faced Champs/with add-on Fender reverb tanks (miked through a PA for gigs).
Black face Princeton Reverb (still miked for medium sized rooms) and Deluxe Reverb (could play straight (no PA) for smaller venues.
Always loathed the Super Reverb (loud/clean, but no soul), and owned two.
If my Strat/amp combo could not pull of the "chime" thing that a good mating could do I was not interested.
Oddly enough I played through a Leo Fender Musicman amp in the early 80’s with my last remaining Strat (63) @ a local Guitar Center when looking for a guitar for a friend’s young son and the sound was killer (SS preamp/tube power amp maybe, but not certain).
I may have had the first "master volume" in a Champ that a neighbor/electrician modified in 1965, or so.
It was a few electrical parts wired to a volume pot hanging off/taped to the back of the amp (he wanted it to be completely reversible).
It allowed me to achieve sustain @ much lower volumes when practicing.
He (Don Burns) was also into HiFi.
Owned various other guitars, but my favorites were always the Strats, plus an oddball Ibanez PF-300 that I picked up (for its easier action) after breaking the crap out of my left hand.
Addendum:
Think I've posted about if before, but in the late 70's/early 80's I used "special' Mesa Boogie hookup wire for speaker wire.
It was only supposed to be used for repair of their amps, but a friend/musician who worked @ a local shop gave me a partial roll for such use.
As far as I recall (40 years ago - thank you) it had a Blue covering/clad and was perhaps 16 gauge /stranded.
The Mesa guy did something with HiFi in the 80's but I forget and am too lazy to look it up.
DeKay