Many people on this forum seem to prefer mark III red, blue or green stripe versions of this amp with various differences in preamps,having owned a triaxis which is supposed to be like a catolog of mk amps I decided that I liked all the Mark I sounds on the triaxis,so I bought a mark I reissue and I am very happy with it.My question is what do the early stripe versions of mark IIIs no stripe, black dot, purple stripe, the R1 in particular sound like since they seem to evolved closer to the IIc+ that many like in the later versions? do the early versions sound more like a mark I.what I would like is a mark I sound for RI with class A/simul class option.This seems to be sound of the new 5:50 express and the new lonestar because they went back to a fender blackface type clean and I am thinking of buying one of these amps but I have still have an interest in mark IIIs any suggestions?