Or just enjoy the thing you bought for what it was.
Exactly. They upgraded the 2013 Nissan GT-R (and, no, I don't own one). I think if I owned a 2012 model, I'd still be able to find great happiness. (I drove one recently, and, yes, I can say with great certainty that I'd be just fine with the ol' 2012.)
I ate a fortune cookie recently, and this quote was in it:
"The pleasure of what we enjoy is lost by wanting more." (I actually used a document scanner to scan that fortune.)
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I know you may not want to do too much brand comparison stuff but since you own(ed) both vesions of the 13, Can we have your take on the change?
Okay, assuming one has the pre-freqphase and is dead set on picking up the freqphase version, I'm very confident that person would be thrilled. The upgrade in sound is as substantial to the changes in its construction.
I do have a pre-freqphase JH13 Pro and the freqphase version. Those I know who've so far heard both have been wowed by the latter in comparison, and the original JH13 Pro was already outstanding--I'm of the same mind. The imaging is more precise. Resolution is improved--it is now the most resolving of all the in-ears I've yet heard, and one of the most resolving headphones I've heard regardless of form factor. Over the last few days, I've been listening to the freqphase JH13 Pro directly from the Benchmark DAC2 HGC a lot, and its detail retrieval (and imaging) is amazing. I took it with me to some
Chesky recording sessions a couple of weeks ago for live monitoring.
The pre-freqphase version is no less outstanding than it was before freqphase. But the freqphase version is, to my ears, no doubt better.