This amp head that I purchased last week; arrived yesterday at work. By the time my wife and I went out to eat and spent time at the Health Club, I only had about 30-45 min. last night to give it a spin. I ran the head into a 4/10 cabinet and set it at the 1w setting. Grabbed the Les Paul, ran through Clean, Overdrive and Boost settings. VERY NICE! I am truly impressed already. True tube tone at bedroom volumes. Seemed like some of the compression and sag were there at these low volumes. Though I could have kept at it for hours, I had to give it up for the evening.
I got up this morning and thought, I have 15 minutes before I have to leave for work.....let's try the Strat and single coils. Oh, man. The tones were awesome, still at 1w. I had it set up in the garage, so as not to wake everyone up at 6:30am this morning, but the volume was very low and still had the tone.
I have a lot more to test; 5w, full 18w, the Red Box out silent recording.....but so far....this may be my best hardware purchase in the last 10 years. Others have reported that the Red Box out for silent recording is extremely usable. If this ends up being the case, I see my amp sims taking a long break.