Well thats interesting what with exciting new things to come to the existing HD's......

historically, i think that the bean ends up at about 100$ below the floorboard version...

which would put it around 399$ USD which is pretty much on par with the x3 bean predessesor...

Hans's price is probably the MSRP and not the street price..

Octo777 wrote:

 

 

I guess it's fine for folks who will only use it as a studio tool but I've seen plenty of folks say they would rather buy a bean and FBV than an all in one floor based product which, seems crazy imo.

 

i tend to agree with this... i also can't see a scenario where you wouldn't want the pod stand (30$)

i do think that it's sort of an inbetween pod studio/pod hd device.... and is useful for some...

and some users already have an FBV....

have the same reservations though... i'd rather have all the extra I/O of the floor model

I'd quite like having the desktop version along with an fbv as it means I can have the pod in a place where it's easier to make adjustments to rather than on the floor and it's also more transportable should I want to take it anywhere that I wouldn't require foot control.

I won't trading my hd500 for this though as it doesn't have midi implementation or an aux input