I think modifying your Sonos is a good idea. I have a Sonos modified by Cullen. He added a slave clock to my Sonos to work with an external reclocker. The Cullen mod you are talking about is designed to accomplish the same thing - reduce jitter. I can tell you that reducing jitter in my system resulted in greater perceived resolution, better imaging focus, reduced shrillness in high frequencies, and a lower noise floor. YMMV, but I think your system is good enough to hear the improvements. And as far as your ears, if you're posting here, you already have better ears than most. Good luck.
is Cullen Mod beyond my systems and my ability?
Greetings,
I'm new to 'mid-fi' audio, learning a lot here, having a blast and listening to more music than ever before....Beethoven, Billie Holiday, Bob Mould...a pretty eclectic mix that includes pretty much everything except for contemporary pop and country.
With advice gleaned from you good folks, I've recently put together my first decent entry-level system with a Sonos front-end. The components are:
Sonos 90 (unmodified) w/ PS Audio Jewel AC cable
Anti-cable coax IC
Cambridge DACmagic DAC
Nordost Red Dawn IC
Jolida JD 302BRC w/ Gutwire AC cable
Rega R5 speakers w/ Rega SC42 cables
My listening room is a not-ideal (soundwise, anyway) living room, approximately 15x30, open at both ends and quite bright. Treating the room properly isn't in the cards at this time, unfortunately. My source files are a mix of 50gigs of unfortunately-encoded mp3s and a growing library of new, freshly-ripped Apple Lossless files.
My question is whether or not you think the Cullen modification to the Sonos would be discernible to me, given the rest of my modest system - as well as my green ears. It seems like the performance advantages it offers might be well beyond my ability to display, or maybe perceive, it.
Any and all thoughts welcome. And thank you all for the expertise you've shared here -- it's a great resource to newbies like me.
I'm new to 'mid-fi' audio, learning a lot here, having a blast and listening to more music than ever before....Beethoven, Billie Holiday, Bob Mould...a pretty eclectic mix that includes pretty much everything except for contemporary pop and country.
With advice gleaned from you good folks, I've recently put together my first decent entry-level system with a Sonos front-end. The components are:
Sonos 90 (unmodified) w/ PS Audio Jewel AC cable
Anti-cable coax IC
Cambridge DACmagic DAC
Nordost Red Dawn IC
Jolida JD 302BRC w/ Gutwire AC cable
Rega R5 speakers w/ Rega SC42 cables
My listening room is a not-ideal (soundwise, anyway) living room, approximately 15x30, open at both ends and quite bright. Treating the room properly isn't in the cards at this time, unfortunately. My source files are a mix of 50gigs of unfortunately-encoded mp3s and a growing library of new, freshly-ripped Apple Lossless files.
My question is whether or not you think the Cullen modification to the Sonos would be discernible to me, given the rest of my modest system - as well as my green ears. It seems like the performance advantages it offers might be well beyond my ability to display, or maybe perceive, it.
Any and all thoughts welcome. And thank you all for the expertise you've shared here -- it's a great resource to newbies like me.
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