BUT...

It overheats and shuts down. i only used this amp once on a gig. I had it in brdged mode, in a to space rack with sans amp rbi above it. The RBI is very shallow, and even though the manual clearly says that it should have a rack space open above it, I thought I could get away with it. Most of the cooling fins were uncovered

WRONG!

The amp shut down on me at least 4 times during a gig. Granted, I was not following directions--I should have left one full rack space open above it. I was using it bridged, which puts the most strain on it. Probbly if I had brought a clip on fan and blown air into the rack, I'd have been ok. Maybe. Who wants to worry about it? I don't. They advertise it as one rack space, but it needs at least two in the real world, probably three. It can't really run at its rated watts unless you pamper it. I don't want a piece of gear that's so finicky.

I dumped the stewart and bought a QSC PLX 1202, which is more powerful and has a fan. It runs cool all night bridged into 4 ohms

Construction	25%
(knob fell off, overheats)
Clarity	75%
(seemed fine, not as tight as the QSC)
Volume	50%
(great when it was working)
Value	85%
(cheap--but high cost in terms of actual use)
Overall	25%
(greta idea, but not actully workable)