Spectron Musician III SE Mk.2? What Changed?

Oofer-

Did you get the Vcap or Bybee upgrades?

Often audiophiles are getting to concerned witn modifications. It's as if without the modifications they can't live any longer with their unmodified gear. This is ridiculous: an audio unit, be it an amplifier, CD-player or speaker should sound good or not very good from the beginning and they should remain that way, with or without modifications. If you are only satisfied with the sound after the unit has been modified, what is the reason for buying it in the first place then? I think it's weird if someone is buying a piece of audio just to let it modified first prior to listening. Or don't you agree with this?

Chris

Dazzdax--I agree. Though I did substantially improve a Marantz SA-8001 SACD player with mods from RAM. By and large though, The unit should be the engineering statement from the company as is. If they felt it needed improvement, it should be included.

But YMMV, and to each their own.

"I think it's weird if someone is buying a piece of audio just to let it modified first prior to listening. Or don't you agree with this?"

Dazzdax, I think "weird" is a little strong but I do see your point. That said, I think there are some component/modification pairings that are so widely hailed as exceptional that a pre-mod audition is unnecessary. I just cant imagine my Sony 9100ES performing at its current level without the Modwright Truth Mods.

It appears there have been no changes to the Spectron amp since 2008. Does any one out there know why?