The V-4BH would have been better marketed under a different name. It really was very little like the old V-4B. SLM's products didn't have the best reliability, but they were worlds better than what came after. If they had gone the route that Loud is now following but made the amps in the US with the same quality they had then, they would have been more successful, but it seemed that most of their design innovation was used in the Audio Centron and Crate brands. They treated Ampeg like what it was: a reliably selling stage standard, but only Gibson can get by with making 70% of their production Les Pauls.