You make it sound very interesting and my
finger has been twitching towards eBay!  At that price, its SAF
(spousal acceptance factor) is a non-issue too.
Hey T Early,  I spoke with someone and hopefully this weekend I'll do (as he
said he did) a 'side to side' test with the 398.
Now my 398 is stick and run to a sloper or a buttload of wire,  all I gotta do
it throw a switch.  I run mine on rechargeables,  and we be 'joyed' to unplug
the external and sit it on the lazt susan with that old nasty looking GE P-780.
..
http://www.transistor.org/collection/ge/ge14.html
http://www.transistor.org/feature/jutson/feature.html
or imo,  this is the best one.
http://www.transistor.org/feature/jutson/details.html