I'm did some tube and EPROM swapping back and forth and from what I can tell:
A: the one unit is brighter than the other. Might be the different components like SC was saying, or maybe somethings starting to go on my original unit
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B: EPROMS do sound different:
V1.38 seems to have more presence and wider dynamic range (if that makes sense to you)
v2.01 seems more compressed on the high end.
I also read an article by Michael Wagener (Record Producer for Skid Row/Dokken ect.), he states the 1.38 version sounds better than the 2.01.(subjective I know) but I have used both EPROMS with the same unit, same tubes and they do sound different.
I know the firmware update doesn't include any tone changes however it does seem to add more compression to it.
Does anyone have any release notes from the 2.01 firmware update? I would really like to know all of what the update included.