It helps knowing you think the Fender HRD is too loud.
It's hard to nail down what you're looking for between clean headroom
or crunch to lead tones, so I'm going to assume that you want better lead tones
at somewhat reasonable volumes.
Are you playing with live drums?
The more we know about your situation, the more we can do to help you narrow down your choices.
You've also hinted that your budget is rather limited.
In that situation, you may be better off going for a well cared for used Silver Face
Fender and save enough to have it refurbished and voiced by a good tech.
In the 18 - 30 watt offerings new,
I'd still check out the Reeves Custom 18 and 30
with power scaling.
www.reevesamps.com - Home
The Reinhardt 18 and JKC33
Amps
and the Category 5 Tsunami and Ivan
Category 5 Amplification :: Custom Hand Made Boutique Amplifiers for Guitar
I've also seen some great deals on the Suhr Badgers
so there's another possibility.