Just FYI -
ReferenceAudioMods.com now offers a very extensive menu of mods to the DV-50, including transformer-coupled output stages (using silver-wire transformers - expensive, but potentially quite significant).
Tube Research Labs also mods this player for a very reasonable price.
I don't profess to know how they compare to the APL DV-50 offering, but you might want to do some research there.
I have a DV-50 myself, and though I have not heard any modded players (DV-50 or otherwise), I like this player enough to keep it and go down one of these upgrade paths.
After reading countless threads regarding this player, I get the feeling that AlexP doesn't really have any desire to mod the DV-50, and has voiced several technical reasons that it is a poor platform to invest in for such mods. He is only offering a few updates to it due to popular demand.
ReferenceAudioMods.com now offers a very extensive menu of mods to the DV-50, including transformer-coupled output stages (using silver-wire transformers - expensive, but potentially quite significant).
Tube Research Labs also mods this player for a very reasonable price.
I don't profess to know how they compare to the APL DV-50 offering, but you might want to do some research there.
I have a DV-50 myself, and though I have not heard any modded players (DV-50 or otherwise), I like this player enough to keep it and go down one of these upgrade paths.
After reading countless threads regarding this player, I get the feeling that AlexP doesn't really have any desire to mod the DV-50, and has voiced several technical reasons that it is a poor platform to invest in for such mods. He is only offering a few updates to it due to popular demand.