Thanks very much JMcDonald, can see u put a lot of effort in there. The MBX5 looks quite tempting... originally i was thinking about the hyper 7 but seems a bit out dated like you say. Have you herd of the GV models Rex-X pro? what do you think of this?
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Thanks again James.