I wish that they would have released a 5F2-A tweed Princeton circuit instead. The Princeton had a larger output transformer and a 10" speaker in the cab. It also has a simple tone control that does not suck down the gain. Really, the only differences in the two circuits are a pot, two caps and an extra hole in the chassis.

I agree on the tube recto, really unnecessary in a Class A circuit like the tweed Champ. The only reason amp companies used them in the past was that at the time, tube rectifiers were cheaper than silicon rectifiers. Leo Fender would have used SS diodes in a heartbeat had they been cheaper than their tube counterparts.