Hey cnote, what did Friedman do to your LB? I have an original as well and I remember posting and asking him what Lynch had done to his LB's and he said nothing, bone stock. So i am left wondering what Friedman did? As for the new generation LB, make sure you like the Judge module or sound of it first as to me, I am not a huge fan of it's voicing but it has it's place. That new series is essentially three of his modules hardwired into the amp. I would think that the amp is a bit of a sleeper considering you get a clean channel that crunches up when turned up, a hot rodded channel (Judge) and the Grail higher gain channel which was Randall's take on a recto.