Interesting. Your Dino is EL34 based or something else?
I had a Mesa DC5 for a while (6L6 based), and that one also had awesome cleans and very 'immediate'... like the electrons already knew what you were going to play. With the graphic EQ you could make a caricature of the scooped Fender cleans with even bigger lows and bolder highs, but man, it was just soooo damn punchy and clean.