Fair question, erm according to their website gen8 isn't on sale yet? Plus in my eyes I don't see them being much different? I think you are under the impression I'm doing more to my loom than I actually am lol I bought OFAM originally so I could just whack.it in the hole and plug it in no questions, no messinget,no wiring job done. When I removed my loom obviously being an old loom the loom tape was in poor condition somebody at some.point has "repaired" it with connectors and such and a couple of the plug connections were a little loose, iv just essentially stripped out anything that has looked suspect and replaced.with new cable soldered and heat shrinked in, and then just extended.certain plugs a few.inches to make it easier to tuck the loom.where I want it, this plus cleaning and re wrapping the loom has made it look all smarter and hopefully will be a bit more reliable and issue free now as we all know old looms are a bit... Worn lol

I wouldn't mind building a loom from scratch if I HAD too but I'm not a massive fan of wiring, capable of doing it but don't.enjoy it lol