This is fantastic news Steve!! I'll reach out to the next in line to get this back going again.
Palomino, you were the current holder of the machine when it went belly up and I know you never got to give it a proper test drive. Would you be interested in giving it another shot? Ill be getting back to a 2 week rotation so if you have time over the next couple weeks to run it again, and post some commentary, then the machine will be back in your hands. No biggie either way. If not, I will go ahead and reach out to the next tour member.
Quote: The only thing it really needs to sound beyond respectable is a tube preamp following it.
I concur. Tried it both ways and with the tube pre-amp, it was across the board better.