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How about bugera V22, affordable and pretty decent sound. I know there were reliability issues in the past with bugera amps, however as far as I know they were taken care of in their recent products.

You can also consider Egnater rebel and egnater tweaker, great amps.

so in my opinion if you want an orange, for the orange sound, then you don't want to get the OR15 or the TH series or Tiny terror etc…all the new Oranges don't really sound like the vintage ones. The OR is a tragedy given that it shares its name with the OR120 from the back in the day, but it sounds nothing like the originals.

I would say the newest orange amp that still maintains that orange sound is the Rocker 30 – which was discontinued in about 2008. These Rocker 30 amps come in combo (1x12 Celestion V30) or in a head format. I have one of these amps in combo form for home use, and I can still get a really good tone out of the dirty channel on low volume, or run pedals through the clean channel. 

Hope this helps, but like i said, it depends on what sound your going for.

Bruce said
I will disagree with the above statement. a lot of the orange amps out these days are more saturated with gain but they still sound like an orange. dial off the gain a little bit and it sounds like a vintage 70s orange amp that most players used tons of pedals in front of. thats just my opinion. I will say though amps will change in the course of 30 years. My marshall jcm2000 doesnt sound like a vintage marshall but its got a lot higher gain than most marshalls besides the jvms but its still an authentic marshall. It all depends on the style of music you listen to and your purpose you have for the amp.

It really depends on what sound your going for…but respectfully I have to disagree with you Bruce. The old orange's were made differently to the new ones, and although new Oranges do sound like Orange, they don't sound like the vintage models, and reduction in the gain wont do it. Its the actual component that are very different.  Like you say the new Oranges have a more saturated gain sound but they are also tighter sounding too, to cater for todays market.

When i compare the Rocker 30 or even an older OR120 to todays amps, even if i dial down the gain in new amps, they still have a very different overdriven/distorted tone. Its almost like the older amps on high gain head towards a warm and fuzz sound and the newer ones head towards a crisp OD/distortion sound.