Mine is a late version. It sounds really nice, but it depends what you're after. If the goal is extremely accurate sound with flat frequency response from DC to light, this is not your amplifier. Its very warm, has a lot of bump in the bass with the loudness on, and sounds a little rolled off up top. Very pleasing to listen to, but not what I'd call highly accurate. The tuner really does work nicely though if you're into radio.
Its also not a particularly powerful amp. Fisher claimed it as a 40w amp, 20+20. Its realistically a 20 watt amp. Mine does 18 with one channel driven, or a little better than 9 per channel with both driven. Efficient speakers are a must with this one or its just not going to have the guts to drive them.