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Totally agreeing with Richard that new products may not be the best. But please note that this about Roland/Boss loopers and the RC-50 really is the best among those. So sad it is going out of production now. Looped Greeetings Per Boysen On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 6:57 PM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com> wrote: > Victor, > > A bit of wisdom that may and may not apply to the RC 50 but has applied > to MANY things I've bought, upgraded, swapped, sold, horse traded etc: > > THe newest version is NOT always the best. In fact, after having spent > hundreds of thousands of dollars on music stuff, I frequently wait to > buy the newest versions so the creator has time to iron out the bugs > that slipped through the cracks. Quite often, WE are the focus group, > the test group of new devices, software etc. I remember this well in > the first days of Digidesign where I would call with an issue, they'd > ask me to repeat what happened. Then there would be silence and they > would say, "Oh cool! I think I know what that is. I'll get back to > you." > > Think of the Jupiter 8, the old tweed Fender Supers and Twins, the Tube > Screamer, the migration from analogue tape to digital (both have extreme > advantages over the other). > > Newer is not necessarily better. Sometimes it is, often it's not. For > Digidesign (now Avid), MOSTLY it's improvement... but often it's four > steps forward, one terrible step back. > > With time, marketing hype starts to sound like white noise. > > Just my simple headed opinion!!! Results may vary! > > Richard Sales > Sent from my IPad > www.glasswing.com > > > On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Victor Eijkhout <victor@eijkhout.net> wrote: > >> >> On Jul 9, 2011, at 10:53 AM, Paul Richards wrote: >> >>> I checked 4 major music vendor sites and saw the discontinued message. >> >> Guitar Center lists it for a clearance price of 450. >> >>> Interesting...will Boss be replacing it with a re-vamped version? >> >> That would be cool. If it weren't for the fact that I bought my RC-50 >> only a few months ago. >> >> Btw, http://www.eijkhout.net/mp3s/loop/Friday%20loop.mp3 >> >> Victor. >> > >