I get it. I owned some really expensive and high end tube amp. I was able to pretty much model each of my Friedman BE100s and my BE100 DLX with my AXE FX 3 so for my needs as just being a home player, I didn't need $7k in Friedman heads sitting around when I pretty much captured a apples to apples tone with my AXE 3. I still have a Cameron and a EVH EL34 100 Watt but in the end, I found myself running the AXE 3 via 4CM into both of those amps and then just utilizing the real heads as a power amp and using the amp sims on the AXE 3 as I found them more enjoyable and more forgiving to play. I took a runner at the BE Mini and I am quite pleased with the tone. Playing the BE Mini quiet and through my rig it sounds awesome and has this mid quality and thump to it that is just really nice. Doesn't seem solid state to me at all so hats off to Dave Friedman. Great product and great marketing strategy. Like others have said, I wish growing up that we had amps like this at our disposal. To have a Friedman amp and Friedman tone for under $400 is a great marketing approach. Will this replace a tube amp, hell no but for jamming at home it sure sounds nice and sure beats wearing down the tubes on your tube amps just playing at whisper home volumes.