I've had a DC-30 on the bucket list for a long time - I always thought they sounded glorious - and I was just poking around Reverb to see if I could find a used one. I had never heard of their "Laurel Canyon" model, so went down the rabbit hole of online demos, and the more I listened, the more I was convinced that it's really 100% in my wheelhouse.
I only buy amp heads these days. No more combos for me. I have a 65Amps 2x12" speaker cabinet, and that's what most everything goes through. Buying amp heads is 1) a lot cheaper (especially used ones), 2) takes up considerably less space, and 3) is much better suited to recording, when you can have the amp sitting next to you in the control room and really crank it up and let it sing, and put the cabinet in another room so you're not going deaf. I'm also convinced that 15 or 20 watts is *plenty* of power.
If you read the Matchless description of this model, they have a feel-good story about it being a tribute to the singer songwriters who lived in the canyon ...which strikes me as odd marketing, because none of those Laurel Canyon singer/songwriters were known for their electric guitar tones. When I looked at online reviews and gear discussion forums, several people describe them as being sonically between Vox and Fender. I might be missing something, but that's not how it sounds to me. Like I said, I hear it as a nice Vox sound with that EL84 chime. It seems like it gets a little more growl than an AC30 when pushed, but it maintains really nice note separation when hitting chords (I realize that Tim Pierce could sound amazing on almost anything).
Anyway, I can appreciate all kinds of guitars and all kinds of amps, but the tones that seem to resonate with me emotionally are disproportionately semi-hollow guitars, P90 pickups, and Vox-flavored amps. I'm also not a good soloist... so I care less about killer single-note tones and more about playing chords and partial chords and getting inspired by low-to-moderate gain guitar tones as writing tools.
Probably a lot longer answer than you wanted.