Wow, that's a very large price increase over the D-200 Mk I (roughly a 50% increase).
Is there a substantial improvement with the Mk II's?
Yes...
The original D-200 took the D-100 design to it's maximum and offers excellent performance, especially for the cost.
We've gained a wealth of experience since the release of the original D-100 in 2005, and also listened to requests/suggestions from our customers.
The result is D-200 MKII. The new model uses the same chassis as D-500 MKII and has many other similarities.
The heart of the new model is the power supply...the transformer is 3 times the size of the original, power rail capacitance has been doubled, and employs separate windings and individually regulated low-voltage stages. Our SmoothStart & XDC-2 circuits are also now built-in. Other new features include single-ended RCA
and balanced XLR input, and 12v DC trigger input/output.
We're still tweaking the final version, but so far I'm very pleased with the results.