Cheaper Deus upgrade path

[Verulamium]

Although some functionality can be 'driven' by the headphones, not all of it can. This will mean some settings won't be available even though the 'technology' exists in the coil.

I rarely switch on the control unit nowadays but this is because I've set all that stuff already.

Will be interesting to see how this works out........

[Beany_bot]

very interesting! is the remote not the screen though?

[hammyman]

Rip off!!!! £1399 for the whole unit..........Someones making an incredible profit.

[Verulamium]

The RRP is £1399 but most places are doing them for £1200 now. Still a lot of money granted!!

[Beany_bot]

Rip off!!!! £1399 for the whole unit..........Someones making an incredible profit.

XP are selling them to shops for much less than that. I think a fair price considering its all new revolutionary product. R&D is expensive you know.

[Danzigman]

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[GREGGOWREX]

Bit of Trivia not related to subject ...."Deus "the word means" God out of machine "...who said you cant mix a hobby with religion .....thats why there are so many converts on here

[hammyman]

Rip off!!!! £1399 for the whole unit..........Someones making an incredible profit.

XP are selling them to shops for much less than that. I think a fair price considering its all new revolutionary product. R&D is expensive you know.

R&D is more than covered by the price XP sell to the distributors for.It's the 30%+ profit margin I object to.

[pete@boston]

Looks a nice way to get into the Deus market, i wondered why they didn't do it from the start but they have had a good run on the full price machines so perhaps sales have slowed down and they are offering to a different type of buyer.

Profit Margin may be 30% but you take out the guy has to advertise on the net or in Magazines
Run a shop, business rates , pay wages, i should say staff get pretty tied up with customers both in the shops and on the phones,storage, postage offer 0% finance when they have probably had to borrow the money in the first place that soon brings the profit down then you have damages and returns.

I would think they are lucky to get 12-15% profit on a sale, perhaps not even that much, they cant be expected to do it for nothing.
IMHO

[jimbotrucker]

I too have seen this on ebay at about £850. & also thought about an upgrade from my 705. but how many functions do you loose to save £350 on the control.

[sugar]

too many im afraid for a newbie on this machine it is so much more informative to have the control unit i also think you lose all the expert settings so NOT A GOOD WAY TO GO in my opinion

[jimbotrucker]

Looks like the 705 will stay for a while then, thanks for the advice.

[JBM]

You get what you pay for folks.

I would not dream of getting half the kit.

Better to go on using what you have and save up the extra or buy a used complete machine.Jerry.

[baz1sue2]

Any one using the lite version with just the control box,if so what,s your opinion, do you still get good tone quality through wired headphones ? you can get this cheaper version for £950 and seems to me a better way of starting out with the deus than the other lite version as a lot of people have stated you loose a lot of funtion tweeks etc. without the control.......

[Kmarsh]

Its still wireless Baz......... without the control module...........