Josh Homme's guitar tone on the Kyuss album [ame=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welcome_to_Sky_Valley]Welcome to Sky Valley.[/ame] He played an Ovation jazz guitar through Ampeg bass cabinets, and tuned it down a couple stops.
Nice. I have the GCD-750 CDP. At the time I had a chance to but that preamp and did not. I have regretted it several times over the years ...like right now.
Wow dude, that is quite lucky all things considered. Sounds like you dodged a bullet.
Today I slept, a little, dig further diagnostics on my injured PC, priced out replacement parts, and concluded I am buying a 1TB LaCie drive to back up my digital life.