As someone who still buys and tries new gear, I'd like to say that it's been my pleasure to help anyone who has benefitted from my escapades and testing of gear and I enjoy the challenge of checking out if a certain echo will deliver - or not. Times many I have listened to what turned out to be bad advice back in the early days of the site and it cost me money until,I got wise to it and disassociated myself with the hype. Pickups were one of the biggest revelations, as it seemed compulsory to have the Kinman 'Hank Marvin' set installed, which I soon realised took me away from the sound that I was seeking. Then we had all the Alesis echo boxes with EFTP, gadgets to modify your Vox AC30 or AC15 and a plethora of other costly mods to guitars and related kit. Only when I stripped it back and rid myself of all of the above, did I find satisfaction and I never looked back. Admittedly, I was struggling with my hearing (unbeknown to me at the time) but that was remedied and I found that by using roughly the same kit that was a available to us at the beginning, the sound was there a plenty. All it needed was to listen to the original recordings and the way the tunes were played, then try to practice more and learn to use the kit and understand the use of the HPF in the sound chain (High Pass Filter) to get the guitar in the correct ball park. All the new echo boxes available to us at modest prices will do the job as long as you get the guitar tone in the ball park. It took me having to own a Meazzi Echomatic and a TVS3 to be able to do A/B tests in order to realise it.
I continue to get these devices to try out as some of you will have seen, still looking for the best 'buy'. I currently favour my Zoom G5n, as it ticks all boxes for what I do, with the Strymon Volante my favourite 'stand alone' echo pedal but I'll keep offering bits and pieces on new kit as it comes out as long as we're on line .