who are the best people to do equipment mods?


I have a question?

who are the best people/companies who do mods to existing equipment?

my personel experience is Rich Shultz at EVS who did a wonderful job with the Millenium II dac. A really wonderful and very musical piece. And Ric is a great guy but a bit swamped! I'll have him upgrade my system when I am ready for a universal transport!

Ric's website tweakaudio.com

I am currently looking at having Steve Huntley of GReat Northern SOunds do work on my ARC preamp and my transport. I heard great things about his Cal and ARC upgrades. Steve worked with Cal, Audio Research and Wadia and from what I hear he can take their pieces and make them sing even more musically. I'll let you know my findings

His website www.greatnorthernsound.com
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I cant compare him to others, but I have heard Dan Wright's hot rodded tube output stage ES-777 in my system. Dan lives here in Portland. I thought it sounded better than my scd-1. Best CD playback I've heard. Nice guy too. See www.modwright.com.
I also concur that Bill Thalmann of Music Technology is the man for the Job. He has made mod's to my MC240's and CJ P2. He has also done a great job at repairing many of my other gear!(DAT,cd player, power amps). He is a great guy! He is also very busy.
Great Northern Sound did a great job with my Cal Delta: quieter, great soundstage, more detail through the spectrum. Was a quantum jump in performance. Quick turn around. Nice guy to boot. Answered all my questions by phone and e-mail
Hola. I have dealed with Dusty Vawter from Channel Island (MSB Link-I and Monolithic Sound HC-1) and with Dan Wright from ModWright.com (NAD C-540 as a transport). Both are very responsible and with great knowledge on their areas. Dan is more accesible and he give a constant follow up and keep in track with the equipment progress. Also, Steve McCormack is a terrific guy to deal with.

I think we are lucky to count with such kind of professional people.

Good luck.

Jose.
Richard Kern (www.audiomod.com) did a great job modding my Sony 333ES player. Not sure what else he works on but its worth looking into for a quote.