How come no-one mentioned the Peluso vtb? I understand its supposed to emulate or approach 800g. I've not used the 800 but the vtb definitely has a produced sound all by itself. I've been using it through an MA5 and a mono gama (steel mostly) for female rnb and its just so easy to get the right sound.
oops just saw someone finally mentioned the vtb just a couple of posts above..
Because this is a thread from 2 years ago that was revived... the VTB is definitely a candidate now, but did not exist back then.