Only you can really answer the first question. Just because John Petrucci now has pickups he likes more for the current music he is playing doesn't mean that you need them too. Many people out there are happy with their JP models as they originally came, whichever pickups they came with.
Hi, not exactly about the subject but if i want to disconnect the preamp circuitry in the majesty, can i do it? i don’t need it for the boost because i usualy don’t use it, but the main reason is that the preamp is always on even if the boost is of. if i want to add a preamp to my sound i use the JHS clover for this. I feel that the preamp is coloring my sound and compare to my musicman jpxi that don’t have this function, it sometimes bother me. thank you all.