I’m going to have to take my comment about the MiniBrute back. It was user error, I’m embarrassed to say. Patching in some stuff to the jacks in back I inadvertently flipped the Gate Source switch 
a real dumba$$ move, and I really should have known better. The MiniBrute is an excellent synth, a good compliment to the Sub. I still worry about the build quality, though, it seems that the new MicroBrute had an assembly issue where the Mod wheel was installed incorrectly on the first batch of machines. That’s been sorted out on the forum, but the last thing I want to do with a new synth is open it up 
Still, at $299, I have one on order 
I have to say I apreciate that kind of honesty on the forums. Free criticism is too often encountered. Thanks for precising this 
Free criticism is too often encountered.
Yeah, I hear you. It’s important to make comments like that correct, and maybe to own up to user error. I’m pretty experienced with this stuff (even built my own MOTM-based modular) but that doesn’t mean I can’t be an ass-hat once in a while 
The Sub Phatty is the modern incarnation of the model D’s sound IMO. It sounds different, obviously, but has the same type of mean growl that very few synths, especially modern ones have.
But even with the “meanness” it is still pretty clean cut or modern sounding, while the model D is grittier on the edges when the filter is driven. Also, the noise on Sub, while very cool and the best I have heard on a modern keyboard synth, is a distant second to the Model D, whose pink and red noise as subtle modulators are the coolest and most analog sounding I have heard.
Obviously, given the choice, the model D is far superior, but the Sub is the best new synth as far as sound goes IMO.