Riley333

Larry, Before the firmware the distortion presets had a brittle sound, and the acoustic modeling was too, which made the string noise very loud. After the firmware update it was a whole new world, distortion presets were nice and had a warmth to them and the acoustics were much better, really amazing actually. If you're in Austin TX you can use this one to do the update. Riley :)

I would think that the Line 6 monkey through the pod HD 500 X Line 6 link out to this stage source speaker would be able to do the update. There is lots of companies that have a PC-based or Mac-based firmware updater and it's just a small little application, I would think there would be some way to do that with the Line 6 monkey without too much trouble, and save customers a lot of trouble. However, right now you can't even use workbench HD with a pod HD 500 X and a variax. You have to stop everything, plug your variax guitar into the USB interface, put the battery back in, and then you can use workbench HD.

I just bought a L3T to use as a variax dream rig a few days ago, I thought it sounded good but not great. then I found out I had an old firmware version on it 1.03, then, I found out that I had to have M20d in order to update the firmware. I did not see any of them in stock at any of the guitar centers within hundreds of miles of me. My plan was to ask if they would let me bring the speaker in and get the firmware updated so that I don't have to spend $2000 on a piece of equipment that I don't need. I went to my local guitar Center yesterday to check out a guitar that they had in stock, while I was there I let them know that I wasn't happy about the speaker and that they would most likely be getting it back. One of the sales people there did some looking around and found one that showed in stock but no one knew where it was. the m20d box had accidentally been put inside of a Roland shipping box, long story short, they sold me the brand-new m20d for 1500.00 instead of 1900. They let me know that I can return it without any penalty, keep it, or sell it on craigslist or eBay. So I thought maybe somebody on craigslist would like a good deal so I posted it there, if no one shows any interest in a day or two I'll just take it back to guitar center. I did the firmware upgrade and now the l3t sounds absolutely incredible! If you're still on the old firmware version with these speakers I encourage you to update it anyway you can the difference is astounding!