[eac3]

 

 
Here is the fix they provided:
 

  Dear backers,

As you may have noticed, the $399 Pulse LPS4 2.0 Trade-in perk has been taken down from the campaign. You might be wondering why.

I’ve made a critical error in offering the retail version of Pulse DAC and Pulse LPS (Chassis 2.0) here on the campaign. This offer “muddied the waters,” so to speak. Because of this error, backers are caught in a situation where they may have unmatched components on their desktop or in their rack. For this error, I apologize. It was my decision alone. I’m sorry.

Because there are backers of Pulse DAC Infinity and Pulse DAC SE that will have their devices housed in the retail chassis, we’ve decided to keep the $639 Pulse LPS4 perk active in the case that those backers may want to purchase a matching LPS4. We will not, however, be accepting trade-ins. If Infinity and SE backers don’t want to purchase the new LPS4, we will be providing them with longer cables to connect their LPS/4 1.0 units to their Pulse DAC units to enable them to place their power supplies somewhere out of sight.

Those backers who elected to back the $399 Pulse LPS4 2.0 Trade-in perk will have their contributions refunded by the end of the day Friday.

Again, this mistake is mine. I’m sorry for all the confusion, frustration, and anger I’ve caused. I hope you’ll forgive my overzealousness. I was trying to make everybody happy and, in the end, very few were.

Sincerely,

Gavin

 

[mscott58]

Here' the official update. Whiplash anyone? And to be honest, the logic of his message escapes me.

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Dear backers,
As you may have noticed, the $399 Pulse LPS4 2.0 Trade-in perk has been taken down from the campaign. You might be wondering why.
I’ve made a critical error in offering the retail version of Pulse DAC and Pulse LPS (Chassis 2.0) here on the campaign. This offer “muddied the waters,” so to speak. Because of this error, backers are caught in a situation where they may have unmatched components on their desktop or in their rack. For this error, I apologize. It was my decision alone. I’m sorry.
Because there are backers of Pulse DAC Infinity and Pulse DAC SE that will have their devices housed in the retail chassis, we’ve decided to keep the $639 Pulse LPS4 perk active in the case that those backers may want to purchase a matching LPS4. We will not, however, be accepting trade-ins. If Infinity and SE backers don’t want to purchase the new LPS4, we will be providing them with longer cables to connect their LPS/4 1.0 units to their Pulse DAC units to enable them to place their power supplies somewhere out of sight.
Those backers who elected to back the $399 Pulse LPS4 2.0 Trade-in perk will have their contributions refunded by the end of the day Friday.
Again, this mistake is mine. I’m sorry for all the confusion, frustration, and anger I’ve caused. I hope you’ll forgive my overzealousness. I was trying to make everybody happy and, in the end, very few were.
Sincerely,
Gavin

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[eliwankenobi]

So it's oficial. No LPS4 trade-ins

I believe the longer power cable umbilical for us with 1.0 LPSs to be sensible and fair

 

[nudd]

Yep it's totally incomprehensible. How is offering the retail version of the DAC a critical error related to trading in the LPS 4?

If anything people may have bought the old LPS 4 and want a matching case.

I think if anything the critical error creating the angst is the horrific price of $400 just to swap to a bigger case?

 

[eliwankenobi]

They say it's a redesigned PCB to accommodate the change in shape of the box. Yet the circuit is the same.
So not exactly a box swap. But yeah, it seems like a change from the super early bird perks that we saw at the beginning of the campaign. Them again, back then, the scope of the project was not as big as we made it to be. Pulse now is a whole different animal from what it was supposed to be at the dawn of the campaign.

I had no hope from the beginning. The trade-in didn't covered LPS-1 units.

 

[AxelCloris]

My X Infinity has shipped. Hooray! It's been a good week so far, having just today received my CDM and QP1R. Now the only item left to ship is my Ether.

 

[mscott58]

Congrats Brian! Enjoy

 

[longbowbbs]

  My X Infinity has shipped. Hooray! It's been a good week so far, having just today received my CDM and QP1R. Now the only item left to ship is my Ether.

If we don't hear from you for a while we will know why!

 

[AxelCloris]

  If we don't hear from you for a while we will know why!

 
Psh, as though I could stop coming to these forums that easily.
 
Looking forward to receiving the X Infinity after all this time.

 

[eliwankenobi]

Do you guys think the Pulse by itself is more than enough or just enough to drive the HE-1000? What about the HE-560?

 

[AxelCloris]

Do you guys think the Pulse by itself is more than enough or just enough to drive the HE-1000? What about the HE-560?

 
There was a Pulse X running the HE1000 just fine at AXPONA. I can't recall if it was the Infinity (I think it was) or Xfi, but it made a decent pairing.

 

[miceblue]

The question is: why would the Pulse not be able to drive the HE1000?

 

[Maelob]

Am i the only one just deleting the email updates? lol whenever i hear about something "new" "perks" "early bird" i just hit delete - when are we getting the geek mono amps?- good for all of you still contributing- for some reason i just dont care anymore- i figured after they showed some great sounding prototypes at CES that the development was almost complete. i am sure as they get closer to producing something more perks will come our way. sorry for my rant but looks like they will never let indiegogo go. i guess thats their philosophy. i am good with that- at least i know i will have to wait. but to be fair the Infinity is awesome

 

[longbowbbs]

The question is: why would the Pulse not be able to drive the HE1000?

The Pulse would have no trouble driving the HE1000's

 

[eliwankenobi]

yeah, those HE-1000 have me intrigued I wish I could demo them with my Infinity when it gets here.