I still dig the Yamaha THR5 for living room stuff. I'll probably keep using it until I can swing a Carr Mercury (or some future PRS lunchbox from heck, should they ever make such a critter). I use the "Lead" model, gain at 5, volume at 7, master volume to whatever I can get away with at the hour I'm playing, "EQ at noon, just a bit of reverb." That's a nice, hot JCM-style lead tone without a whole lot of distortion. It cleans up like an actual amp from the guitar volume, so I can do everything from clean rhythms like "Elizabeth Reed," "Sweet Home," and "Oye Como Va" to dirty 70s raunch like "Highway to Hell," "Sweet Emotion," and "Down Brownie," all off that one setting, just by fiddling the guitar knobs. And when it eventually craps out and dies, its five pound all-metal chassis will make a swell doorstop.