I wasn't trying to be rude with that post, and am sorry if I came across that way. I myself haven't plaid one yet, though am dying to try one out. All I've done is read a lot of reviews of it, and almost everyone of them refer to it as being "Marshall Like" or more Marshall sounding than current production Marshalls. With the irony, I was just trying to be funny by implying that Mesa is making a better Marshall than Marshall is.