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The hiss is not loud enough to bother me on mine, but it is there. It's quieter than my old AI Clarus was. I think the more annoying noise mentioned in some of the Talkbass threads might have been a lead dress/QC issue on the earlier batches. The MB200 sounds good, is tiny and is plenty loud enough for my needs with my cabs, so I still feel like it was a good buy.
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Mine arrived a while ago, and after a quick ram through it with a few different basses, the verdict is good!
The hiss is there, if I have my tweeter rolled on, and the treble at 12 o clock+, which is just too much treble(even for slap, IMO). If I rolled the treble back to an acceptable, yet still bright setting(about 10:30 +/-), the hiss is ever so slightly there, but completely unnoticable. Running the trebele anywhere with the tweeter off was silent, and honestly, I find that slight hiss with most amps anyway.
Also with considering was the entire time my head was between 2 and 3 feet away from the MB200.
More importantly, dang lovely sounding amp, grindy when I dig in, harmonics sing, loud as heck(I only needed the gain at 9 o clock for my high gain basses, and 10:30 for lower gain/parallel humbucker settings) and light as a feather.
Dead happy, it'd be worth every penny twice over.