I never played the original one and I have a Rocktron version. To be honest, I'm not sure that they are that well built. That's what my engineer told me... and very hard to service as well. I had issues with 3rd and 4th channels. No sound from the amp on these. Channel switching, amp started changing channels by itself... It's fixed now and it works perfectly, but it did give me a pain in the ass few times. In the middle of the show
Tonewise they are awesome, if you like the Egnater sound.