With all manufacturers, it's often about planned obsolescense...color changes...new graphics...anything to be able to sell new units. Think of the vehicle manufacturers.
Yamaha is the champion of planned upgrades designed to move product more than pure improvements to the product. Roland sometimes does the same thing.

I bought my ugly grey GW-7, and before I used it, the black GW-8 was on the shelves. Now, before you say it, I admit that the time period could have been years, and that there are significant improvements to the GW-8 over the GW-7, but you get the point.

Over the years Peavy and Fender have made cosmetic changes to amplifier cabinets with basically the same "guts" in them.

Great idea, Fran, but, sadly, none of the majors will ever go for it.


Russ