[Nathan]
Inspired
Do you think OP's initial clips with the Torpedo sound bad? (hint: I think they sound very respectable!).+1
The Torpedo sounds like ass. The Suhr is miles better.
I went down the rabbit hole of load boxes and by the time you feed an amp to a loadbox, slap on an IR with some post EQ you're really just squibbling away at specsheets and comparisons between all the models. With tweaking you can achieve the same result with all of them. I've heard extremely good examples from the two notes, suhr, ox, boss & mesa offerings (oddly I never stumbled onto the LB-2 in my search).
I view it like the AxeFx lineup, they're not going to be 100% the same as the analog counterparts, but its getting you in the 95-99% ballpark. If you want to worry about the last 4% then go for it. When something gets to that level I'd rather just use the stuff and make music, there's no audible difference at that level.