There are lots of people who agree with you, and a lot of them are EHX ‘enthusiasts’ who are on this forum, unfortunatly in the wider world of (we’ll call them ‘general musicians’) people have been crying our for ehx to make their pedals in smaller diecast cases with ‘boss’ type power inputs and by doing so electro harmonix are doing what many people have wanted for a long time.

I’m afraid it’s a no win situation for electro harmonix, you can’t please everyone at the same time and I don’t think it’s possible for them to make both versions of anything in the long term, I really love the old boxes but I also love the xo’s for different reasons, the bottom line is most people don’t care what effects look like or even consider ‘mojo’, they just want it as small as possible, robust and easy to power/use. (the reason Boss sell millions of pedals)

It’s sucks having a minority opinion sometimes, but unfortunatly if you are anything like me you probably find yourself in that position alot through life!!!

ok, lets try and get a positive out of this!! Firstly, pedals have been reissued that I doubt would have ever been if it wasn’t for the xo series. The LPB-1, the soul preacher, the clone theory, these were all dead and buried a long time ago….thanks to the XO’s they got a new lease of life.

Secondly things like the worm and the pulsar have been improved (stereo outpts on the pulsar, expression input on the worm) …so it isn’t all bad.

My advice would be learn to love both, collect old vintage units for their beauty and new units for the features and practicality.

I’m a big EHX fan, but I’ve never been very attached to the oft-unnecessarily large case. I think the XO pedals are a great improvement.

I like how the XO pedals are smaller, but i also like how the non XO pedals have the input jacks on the top instead of on the side. But sice the XO’s are smaller, i can live with the jacks being on the side.

From an aesthetic standpoint, I like the big boxes better. But from a utilitarian standpoint, I’m all about the XOs.

For the time being I’d agree, I guess it depends on how the big box versions sell compaired to the xo’s over the next couple of years, I’m still suprised there isn’t a proper nano small clone….that’s one of the reasons I can’t see then discontinuing the Small Clone just yet. as for the others I can see the small stone maybe going in a year or so if the nano sales are much bigger. The XO DMM is waiting in the wings ready to pounce as far as I’m concerned and the Big Muff I think will always be made, hopefully anyway…although how many more new units they will sell with the Tone Wicker and LBM out now is unknown for the time being.

but yeah, I don’t think there are any plans right now, but I can see those plans changing in a year or so maybe depending on what sales are like.

I agree with that, a ‘Big’ Muff has to be big doesn’t it?