I was flipping back and forth between wanting to take a chance and thinking it's smarter to buy something used that I know the color of. I called Amazon and they agreed to let me return it without paying shipping if I didn't like it since the description was bad. I thought about it for another day or so and they dropped the price even further while it was in my cart. In the end I got it for a much better price than the 1100-1200 I see a lot of Dealers selling them for. I'm really glad it wasn't the Fullerton Red (orangeyish) color. It plays really nice out of the box. I lowered the action a bit further and I have no buzzing. Sounds great unplugged. I haven't plugged it in yet though. It weird that the color has such a yellow tint to it. But, I think they are going for the aged Olympic White strat look. I think they got it pretty close. I was hoping it might me candy apple red, but after all is said and done I think I lucked out and got a great color.
What do you guys think?
I plugged it in and it really sounds incredible on the clean channel of my Orange Rocker 30. I really like all of the positions a lot. I'm not totally in love with the Bridge position but it's good. The middle position is the loudest, and probably my favorite too. I didn't think I'd like it and I love it. Go figure.
I always prefer my bridge to be a little louder than the neck on my 2 HB guitars. I may play around with pickup height a little. Maybe, I can get a more comfortable setup level-wise. I think it's just hard for me to not hear a HB in the bridge pos.
The PTB system is pretty cool. It sort of has individual pots for treble and bass. I can explain it better this way. The bottom knob is for bass cut I believe. These guitars seem a little warmer sounding than regular strats to begin with. Rolling this off just a tad makes the other knob (Treble) act almost like a regular tone knob on an electric guitar. I'm sure it's more complicated than that but that sort of sums up my brief experience with it. I also turned the "bass" knob up all the way and fattened up the Bridge pup. This was very useful.
As for the Dirty channel...it's good but not quite there yet. I have to play with the gain and EQ a little to find the sweetspot. This guitar is definitely way different that all of my others as far as the way it handles dirt. Not in a bad way though, thankfully.
I LOVE VINTAGE WHITE!! In case you haven't noticed? 
