I have one of the first amps. They did not revoice the amp. There deal was a single resistor went bad on some of the first few dozen. I sent mine in to replace the resistor and never had a other issue ever.
There was some talk about a version II a few years ago. But that has not happened yet.
The fact that Stephen appears from nowhere, is sentenced to death in an emotional public trial without anyone interfering at all and is then altogether forgotten as if nothing happened, is already suspicious.