I've used HP, Potomac, Sound Technology, Audio Precision and other
distortion boxes with and without scopes to view the nulled output. And
I was the one who implied the use of the scope to view residuals from
the box.

Arny, it is you and not we, the hobbyists and builders, that lives in
the past.

The fact is, you have the early-60s belief that what is new is
necessarily good and the old is necessarily bad. It is _you_ who live
in the JFK/MM fantasy era of turbine cars and atomic coffee-pots. Not
so much the hardware, the mentality.

A lot of times, the old one _is_ basically better, at least for common
purposes.