Now that the ol' RS analog meter is all but gone from the scene, I picked up the new Craftsman at Sears as a gift for a friend.
Aesthetically, it is not quite the match for the pro-jr. look of the Realistic.
But all functions are the same.
The engineer in me could not resist taking the back off.
It would be a bit more difficult to modify as the board is now fully intergrated with surface mount components. The mike has a connector instead of being hardwired to the board.
But for all practical purposes it is fully equivalent for the $40 Sears charges for it.