Venom Defender "v2"?
 

I have recently seen a couple of those Venom Defender labelled as "v2" in front of the serial number but nothing is explicit on the website in regard to a v2 version of the Defender. Just wondering what are the differences/improvements, if any, compared to an original "v1".

Version 2 of the Defender involved a running change and was not publicly announced. Been around for at least a year or two now. Not sure what the running change entailed, so defer to Shunyata on that.

I was wondering that myself, as I have 2 of the original Defenders playing minor roles in my systems.

Straight from the horse's mouth :thumbsup: :

This was a small running change we made over a year ago. The filtering was improved slightly but not enough to warrant a public announcement about the v2 model.

Case closed.

Sidebar: This week I decided to move my lone Defender v2 from the living room two-channel AV system, where it partnered with a Hydra 8 v2, to my principal "serious listening" bedroom system, where a Delta D6 fed by a Delta XC (v2) handles all the power distribution chores.

I didn't expect to hear any appreciable difference with the Defender plugged into the same duplex as the D6. WRONG. The difference could be characterized as a lot of "bits"--a bit more spatial air, a bit wider and deeper soundstage, a bit heftier low end, a bit more liquid midrange, a bit more apparent, better-defined top-end extension, and a bit more layering between instrumental and vocal choirs. Just "bits", but added together they constitute a not-earthshaking but noticeable improvement that puts the listener a step or two closer to the performance as conceived and delivered by the recording producers', engineers', and artists' miking and mixing decisions.

Whatever the "running change", Shunyata did good.