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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lespauled" data-source="post: 160041" data-attributes="member: 3965">After reading a post that the Judge and the Friedman BE sound similar, I had to give it a shot.   I don't have a Judge module, but I do have a Judge channel in my Randall LynchBox LB103.   I already have my Synergy running through it, so I just loaded up the Friedman BB/BE module, and ran a quick test.With everything on 5/10, you could tell they were similar, but the Judge had more gain.  So I pushed the gain on the BE module to 8/10, and tweaked the Judge with a little more mids (very little).  With a couple of tweaks I felt like I had it dead on.I asked my son to come down, and start playing through the amp.  While he was playing, I was constantly switching between the amp and the Synergy.  I asked him if he heard anything.  He had no idea what I was talking about.  In his ears, they were exact!!  He didn't hear any change.To make sure everything was working properly, I turned the gain down on the Friedman BE, and everything was working perfectly.  There was a major difference.  Turned the gain back to 8, and it was identical again.   It seems the Judge is basically a Friedman BE with more gain.Now I'm considering possibly selling the Friedman BB/BE.  But, I love the cleans from the BB.   I also love the cleans from the Super V channel of the amp.   I'm torn.</blockquote>