Utter rubbish spouted by a NOOB.

You have absolutely no idea what gobbledygook you're talking about.

If Boss pedals are 'quality' made as you claimed, then why are so many people seeking the BOSS vintage MADE-IN-JAPAN pedals and avoid the MADE-IN-TAIWAN equivalent ?

It's simply because production of pedals made in JAPAN used better quality caps and transistors compared to their current Taiwan batches which clearly used inferior caps and parts.

If you've even the slightest cow sense to read schematics of modded pedals, you'd realize how the modders changed poor cheap caps to better ones and improved the sound of the pedals, especially DS-1, Blues Driver and various others.

BOSS is a BUSINESS entity, and as a business entity they will maximise profit and the trend in seeking vintage JAPANESE BOSS pedals compared to their modern equivalent clearly shows BOSS has cut corners in their TAIWAN made pedals in order to maximise profits.

Behringer does the same thing BUT they do not charge and ARM and a LEG for their pedals.

Even if one managed to find a Vintage BOSS pedal, there's no guarantee it will have another 5 or 10 years of useable life. Anything that runs on power will wear down eventually especially with inappropriate power, so it amuses me that vintage pedal collectors are willing to pay MORE price for a MADE-IN-JAPAN pedal than a new taiwan stock which will definitely last longer since components are newer.

These, vintage seeking trend, amuses me to no end, all started by elitist pedal collectors who knows jack sh*t about anything other than 'tone'.

Nothing lasts forever, it will wear out eventually and BOSS no longer makes quality pedals. They're just riding on their past glory.

All those who thinks the vintage pedals are gonna last forever are DELUDING themselves. My source tells me he had so many returned BOSS pedals that he sold to customers, and my guess is many idiots don't know how to power them properly. Only know how to shred shred shred but can't be bothered to find out proper side knowledge.

Thanks to China's mass production factories we could have equivalent stuff for much less money, especially from Behringer, the earliest adopter of Chinese factories long before any other pedal competitors went to china for production.

User error. If it isn't user error, then the Sansamp GT2 probably wouldn't cut it for you either.

Actually it was all fine, some egoistic people just can't stand someone else having an opinion, maybe not in this thread but others in the past. Who cares about their feelings? They didn't give a damn about mine so all is fair and square.

Siapa makan cili dialah yang rasa pedas.

Students who're not earning yet and sponge from their parents to buy first class gear and then act like mr-know-all do not command my respect. Sorry folks, don't be coming to tell me about this and that gear is good, especially when you don't earn your own keep or buy your own gear.

Most in this forum, probably tend to come from rich family and don't need to work and use their own money to buy their own gear. Then you have skullface no talent deathmetal cookie monster fags that go around accusing others of being stingy with gear when in actual fact these fags sponge off their parents to buy expensive gears and come into the forum talking like they know tone and quality over everyone else.