Tswhitsel and Rcprince:
Don't come over here much, but just happened to look at the thread and saw your mention of Jerry and AudioLogic. I've got a 2400 and my transport is a CEC TL-1X (just back from Richard Kern who installed the Reference mod - clock, etc.). Man oh man! Talk about life, musicality, dynamics, soundstage, emotion, smoothness, clarity, extension at top and bottom, incredible midrange - etc. I honestly think it outperforms my Basis 2500, Graham 2.2, Graham Nightingale, Rowland Cadence vinyl front end - no, I'm not kiding.
Have been playing around with a Marantz 8260, which I bought used on Audiogon for $650 so I could try SACD. For the price I'm very impressed with the Marantz on both CD and SACD, although it comes nowhere close to the Audiologic. Would love to know how it would sound on SACD with Richard Kern's mods and Jerry's analog output stage. Last time I talked to Jerry he was no longer doing output stages for SACD players, but that was over a year ago.
If more players and transport/dac combos had approached what Jerry achieved with redbook, nobody would even be talking about SACD.
Don't come over here much, but just happened to look at the thread and saw your mention of Jerry and AudioLogic. I've got a 2400 and my transport is a CEC TL-1X (just back from Richard Kern who installed the Reference mod - clock, etc.). Man oh man! Talk about life, musicality, dynamics, soundstage, emotion, smoothness, clarity, extension at top and bottom, incredible midrange - etc. I honestly think it outperforms my Basis 2500, Graham 2.2, Graham Nightingale, Rowland Cadence vinyl front end - no, I'm not kiding.
Have been playing around with a Marantz 8260, which I bought used on Audiogon for $650 so I could try SACD. For the price I'm very impressed with the Marantz on both CD and SACD, although it comes nowhere close to the Audiologic. Would love to know how it would sound on SACD with Richard Kern's mods and Jerry's analog output stage. Last time I talked to Jerry he was no longer doing output stages for SACD players, but that was over a year ago.
If more players and transport/dac combos had approached what Jerry achieved with redbook, nobody would even be talking about SACD.