Spectron Musician III MK.2 or Audio Research DS450

Audiozen...grew up listening to the same vinyl and a Sansui Model 8 driving a pair of Bozak B313's. Turntable was a Garard.

Dave_b.. Sansui is under different ownership and is mainly a flat panel television company. You can still buy restored Garrard's out of the UK but the very best restored Garrard's that are completely gutted out and restored to brand new condition are from Artisan Fidelity in Hammond, Illinois. Artisan does the very best restoration on classic turntables. Chris, who owns the company is at the top of his game. No one in Europe, the U.S. or in Asia can come close to Chris's Rolls Royce quality restoration. Look at his restored tables on Gon. Masterpieces.

Hello Audiozen,

I am trying to decide between D-Sonic m2 (600 or 1200) or NewClear CL1000l or W4S SX-1000

Any suggestions which will be the best performer...i emailed with Sean form NewClear and he said his technology outperforms D-sonic's.

Any suggestions will be appreciated.

All the best

Miguel

Mikicasellas..I have had several conversations with Sean, and have seen pic's of the interior of his stereo amp. Very little mods. Has two small Lundahl transformers and DH Labs silver plated copper wire with teflon jackets to the inputs and outputs. Thats about it. The problem with NewClear is that the input impedance has not been adjusted
to a higher number. Its at 30kohms, so it would be best to use a Preamp with a low output impedance.
Between the three I would go with Wyred4Sound. Why? the owner of the company
EJ Sarmento, has a degree in electronics. He is a circuit engineer. There are more extensive mods in the Wyred4Sound than in the NewClear. The input buffer circuit board is designed by Bascom King and raises the input impedance to 60Kohms which is easier to drive. Other mods are done by EJ
including different caps and resistors. Sean Brady and Dennis Deacon are business men, not circuit engineers. Wyred4Sound and Bel Canto are companie's that do the best job with the Bel Canto amps since both companies are owned by circuit engineers. D-Sonic uses Pascal and Abeltec
amps with very little mods. The new Jeff Rowland integrated uses
Pascal amps with major mods with added large power supplies. For the money, Wyred4Sound is the wisest choice.

Audiozen,

Thanks for your feedback,

Despite the tech and mods on any of these brands, do you still consider W4S is the best choice sound wise?

Glen from 6 moons said that he consider the W4S is a cooler sound than the D-sonic and Jeff Dorgay claims that New Clear is beyond the mAmps of Wyred4sound...there is where iam hesitating.

Butb actually as iam going to purchase both W4S DAC2 SE and STP-SE preamp, match would do a pretty important synergy, right?

Miguel