Gold Bug 2 New Ground Reject LCD / Knob

[Steve Herschbach]

2 hours ago, Desert Dawg said:

We had 2 of the older GB2's with us last trip to rye patch this June, and this newer lcd model, the two older models were fine, and worked as normal in ground we had worked in the past, I ended up borrowing one of the older models for part of the trip. This newer model is a much different story. It does ground balance, but is much more noisy and harder to keep in balance than the older units. I suspect if they had used the ten turn GB pot alone things would have been fine. Like Carl voted for. 

I doubt it. Again, it is just a control. The issue you are describing has something to do with the internal circuit or even just a substandard coil. The Gold Bug 2 requires a lot of internal hand tuning and it may be Fisher is cutting corners both in the people doing that work and in the quality control area. Marketing and sales seem to be on skeleton crew status and little reason to doubt it is the same elsewhere in the company. But whatever, as I said before, all that matters is the old one worked better for you, and that is a shame. I know if I was shopping for a Gold Bug 2 I’d be more inclined to be looking for an older model with the old 6” epoxy filled coil instead of the newer units. Something made prior to 2015.

 

[Desert Dawg]

Eventually I will find myself an older Los Banos GB2 as my backup machine with the course/fine GB tuning. There are still plenty of these sitting around.