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Way ahead with transport / DVD

I have a Pioneer Elite DV-09 that I'm using as a tranport with my Audiologic 2400 DAC. I want to take this to the next level by upgrading the transport. First question: are there a significant improvements to be achieved in the first place. The way I see it I have three options:
(1) Modify the Pioneer (Modwright, others)?
(2) Sell the pioneer and upgrade to a higher end DVD/CD Transport (Muse 8, Theta David)?
(3) Buy a separate CD Transport (recommendations in the $ 1000 pricerange used).
Who has gone down any of these paths? What would get me the best results?
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Edorr:
I have a Pioneer DV09 and was using it with an MSB Link DAC III + upsampling. I got a used Muse Model 5, and the sound was significantly better. If you really want to hold onto your DAC, getting a new transport may be the way to go. Still, you may get even better results with a complete new CD front end. I got a used YBA CD1A and the sound is now in a different league to my previous Transport/DAC combo. Good luck.
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