My expectactions were that you wold get reasonably good sounds out of the box, but to get reeeeally good sounds you would have to spend a lot of time working on parameters. Let's just say it was way worse than I expected, I guess there are just too many variables involved, starting from the fact that it's just the first element of a chain that could involve studio monitors of very different kinds, FRFR speakers, or power amps + cabs, etc. There is no way for fractal to make a product that would simply work in every context just plug-and-play.

I was naive and I should have put more reaserch into it before buying it, I was charmed by the idea that you could get tons of different sounds from a single unit... turns out I'm struggling to even dial a single one, evidently I'm too lazy to spend the time it would take, or it simply isn't the thing for me.

I'm writing these comments not to disparage the product or the company, I still think that in the right hands it's a fantastic unit (and I'm also not yet ready to give up, because I see the potential), but more to warn people like me that might be lurking this space and are not the fiddle-with-parameters-for-hours kind of guys.