Ha! not likely as that would be an ifi 12th anniversary go bar. I'm daily testing the go bar gold versus the go bar kensei and still *slightly* favoring the gold... more to come...

Putting the GBG and GBK next to each other they look like the gold and silver bar but it seems that as the code matures on the GBK it will become the platinum bar. Actually I am wondering why ifi didnt just call it that....I still like the look of the GBG with the Sony NW-WM1ZM2 ' s gold color...

I compared the actual SPECS on the go bar gold GBG to the go bar kensei GBK and there are differences, higher frequency response on the gbk of 70khz vs 45khz on the GBK. The balanced output has less than or equal to 0.0025% on the GBK versus 0.002% for the GBG. But the big spec diff seems to be...

Great note and as Im thinking back, I've bad a few go bars, one go bar standard two (now three) go bar gold's and now a go bar kensei, and it MUST be the firmware that makes my original gold bar versus the second gold bar sound different--Ive never upgraded a go bar firmware! So the 1.05 GBK...

Thx Mister! It's funny I loved the original go bar on my android phones, but apple folks don't like it as much-same for the orange hip dac 2. But I have gone back and forth alot today between the kensei and gold bars and except for the K2HD setting I don't see much reason to prefer the Kensei...

I got my go bar Kensei and have been comparing it to my 10th anniversary "gold bar" units, and it's very nice. The new harmonics adding K2HD is an interesting gizmo. I think I like the gold bar sounds slightly better overall. The Kensei has more bells and whistles and lights but to my ear the...