CAT JL-2 amp upgrade

not worth it spend your money somewere else

Thank you for responding, Wadia 150. By your comment, I assume you had the upgrade done. May I ask how much it cost, how long it took, and the sonic differences you noted between the JL-2 version 1.0 and version 2.0? Did you keep your JL-2 after the upgrade or change amps? Thanks.
Steve

http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/fr_memb.pl?aamps&1089202007&memb&zzBugman03

I would hope that a JL-2 or JL-3 owner who had the upgrade done would chime in with some before and after comments. I have seriously thought of this with the JL-3 Sig's but they sound so mighty good already. But if the upgrade brings on more resolution and dynamics, woo hoo, that would be awesome. Just wish I could hear the two versions side by side. Would be a lot easier to quantify the differences to determine the value added right then vs. putting that same money elsewhere in the system. But CAT products do not see a version change too often so this change could truly be incredible.

In Late 2004 I had my early model JL2 updated to the Mk II status. The biggest improvement I heard was a great reduction of noise and a much more quieter backgroud. This very postive change was apparent from the first moment I played the first tune on my table. The reduced noise level results in better transparency and more inner detail being revealed. Was it worth it, Yes in my opinion.

Note: This is not the $5000 signature upgrade which is much more extensive and costly but the Mk II upgrade from there early version of the Mk I which I believe was about $1000 at the time. A nice improvement indeed.

Johnny