F107plus5
Headphoneus Supremus
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Yup; sure have. Even looked at them in sort of a "comparator" mode picking out as many differences as I can between GS-1 and Glite, and it's rather difficult to pick the Glite when comparing even the PS upgrades over even the DPS, not to mention the volume pot and a few other good points such as the gain switch and circuitry to better accomodate the use of high and low impedance phones such as my HD600 and MS2i; for example.
It's just sometimes kinda hard to justify using a $750 amp with $300 phones!
And yup again; I kinda figured the Glite would need a total replacement if an upgrade were incorporated. What I guess was in the back of my mind is the situation that sometimes exists with some companies where not all changes are driven by the desire to improve the product. Sometimes changes are made to simply save costs, or for the sake of change alone, making the new product sometimes inferior to the old.
....from what I know and what I think I know about Justin, I don't suspect a cost-reduction-alone change would ever be in the works.
But I guess that someday the current Glite could possibly be obsoleted, but not likely the upgradeable GS-1. Which helps defray the cost disadvantage even considering the prices of the phones being most often being used.
At any rate, some amps could potentially-though-not-likely take a step backwards in quality or SQ, but the current GS-1 would be protected by continuing to use the current modules and only upgrading when the benefits of the new modules are fully understood.
....see; I still might try to talk myself into the GS-1 after all!
As far as my thoughts of "tube rolling" modules; I guess my thought was of some kind of Utopian World where there were three or four different relatively inexpensive modules(by total amp cost standards)available which would change the overall flavor of the amp accomodating the tastes of the listener or fine tuning the listeners system on that particular day......like our Valve Brothers can do!
| Originally Posted by Asr /img/forum/go_quote.gif I'm guessing you've never looked at the pics of the internals of the HeadAmp amps on the Web site, because the Dynalo circuit of the Gilmore Lite is hardwired onto the PCB. The entire PCB would have to be replaced. Only the GS-1 and GS-X move the circuit onto a modular sub-piece so only they can be upgraded. |
Yup; sure have. Even looked at them in sort of a "comparator" mode picking out as many differences as I can between GS-1 and Glite, and it's rather difficult to pick the Glite when comparing even the PS upgrades over even the DPS, not to mention the volume pot and a few other good points such as the gain switch and circuitry to better accomodate the use of high and low impedance phones such as my HD600 and MS2i; for example.
It's just sometimes kinda hard to justify using a $750 amp with $300 phones!
And yup again; I kinda figured the Glite would need a total replacement if an upgrade were incorporated. What I guess was in the back of my mind is the situation that sometimes exists with some companies where not all changes are driven by the desire to improve the product. Sometimes changes are made to simply save costs, or for the sake of change alone, making the new product sometimes inferior to the old.
....from what I know and what I think I know about Justin, I don't suspect a cost-reduction-alone change would ever be in the works.
But I guess that someday the current Glite could possibly be obsoleted, but not likely the upgradeable GS-1. Which helps defray the cost disadvantage even considering the prices of the phones being most often being used.
At any rate, some amps could potentially-though-not-likely take a step backwards in quality or SQ, but the current GS-1 would be protected by continuing to use the current modules and only upgrading when the benefits of the new modules are fully understood.
....see; I still might try to talk myself into the GS-1 after all!
As far as my thoughts of "tube rolling" modules; I guess my thought was of some kind of Utopian World where there were three or four different relatively inexpensive modules(by total amp cost standards)available which would change the overall flavor of the amp accomodating the tastes of the listener or fine tuning the listeners system on that particular day......like our Valve Brothers can do!
