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The unit is in very good shape, especially for its age and works flawlessly.From website:One of the finest examples of solid-state delay is the Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, the pinnacle of bucket-brigade stompbox tech.We can’t talk about delay without first talking about the bucket-brigade device (BBD), otherwise known as “bucket-brigade chips,” “bucket chips,” “BBD chips” and whatever else. Without waxing too poetic about these ICs, they essentially changed the way guitarists approached effects. Before BBDs, almost any time-based effect (barring phasers and vibratos) required the employ of physically large and daunting devices. Choruses and flangers needed a whole tape recorder and a free hand (or two), delays required lugging around a finicky tape echo unit, and reverb needed a whole amp or a clunky outboard spring unit. BBD chips changed all that, bringing the sounds of the studio to stage floors around the world, and relegating the previous methods to recording studios.These BBD chips were developed by former Fairchild employees under a new company name—Reticon. These first BBD chips, manufactured with part numbers beginning with SAD, found their way into pedals soon after, but the raw materials were so expensive that they were produced in limited quantities. Soon, Matsushita of Japan started cranking them out at a fraction of the cost (part number prefix “MN”) and they wound up in thousands of pedals. If a particular pedal ended up migrating from SAD to MN chips, the SAD variant is worth much more money despite not sounding much different. The Memory Man is a rare exception.For something named after memories, the Deluxe Memory Man (DMM) fittingly has created many. The first example of the line was a starkly decorated affair that looked like a frightening piece of hospital equipment. Perhaps better known is the Stereo Memory Man, which added, well, you know. But it was the Deluxe Memory Man that stole the spotlight, adding modulation to the repeats, previously only available on tape machines that had fallen out of repair.That chorus and vibrato was what ended up setting the DMM apart from everything else. Players quickly discovered that turning the Delay Time and Feedback to minimum yielded a lush modulation effect. And unlike most happy accidents discovered in this way, this one actually sounded amazing. Instead of equaling its contemporaries, it exceeded them in many ways; the bipolar power imparted a richness onto the tone, and nobody to my knowledge was offering a vibrato circuit at that point in time.