I spent the past few days listening to the Modwright and felt the bass is very loose. Overall it has a very solid state sound. I Have a tube rectified version coming Wed so I'm hoping this will be better than the original version .Not what I expected.Very fatiguing sound. I wanted to like it , after all it is a Modwright.
I hooked up the the Philly Audio pre and immediately notice a huge difference. Great tone ,bass , warm mids ,great highs and very musical and sweet sounding. This surely beats the MW.Too bad they are no longer made. More on the Philly Audio later...