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| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player The Sony is such a great platform to build on the worlds best commercial bit clocks and power regulation is beong done .The clocks are the Terrafirma Lite clock. and the external version Terrafirma Uber clock .This by far has made much more of a d... | |
| The Best upgrade for digital To Roxy54 and others the Terra Firma lite is a Bit clockand the price is $1600 retail for the clock & filter board and regulation board and installation. the flagship Uberclock is about 20% better still and is $2650 retail and the Uber clock i... | |
| Digital upgrade, Why Can't I make a decision? Guys Listen up the Sony 5400 is a solid very good sounding player .The ONE upgrade that is by far the best is the Terra Firma Lite Bit clock and board upgrade it is like going from a 1 upgrad to a 7 in One shot, Transformationis the only word that... | |
| Has anyone had eperience with the new sony xa5400e I failed to mention the 5400 is allready good with the Swiss TerraFirma clock you would be hard pressed to find better at $10k , for it went toe to toe with a Sony 9000with the highest previous mod #7 .That is saying loads for a total investment a... | |
| Has anyone had eperience with the new sony xa5400e I own the Sony 5400 and it is a true bargain and IMO nothing can beat it for under $4000. I can tell you one thing ot is a breakthough in Upgrades the Terafirma lite masterclock for it is so much more and addresses many things that all others did ... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player I have compared the Sony 5400 forget the Benchmark it is not as musical -natural sounding , the Belcanto dac-3 may be a little better but remember for the same money plus a transport and cable for $2k Modwright will be modding my unit soon and fro... | |
| Review: Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Player one way to make the very good Sony SCD-XA5400ES CD Playereven better is the Very extensive mod Modwright has just completed Dan says it is his best sounding mod to date for cd and for under $3500 total investment competes with units up to $10k tha... | |
| Oppo BDP-83SE or Sony SCD-XA5400ES? Let me state this for the record Dan at Modwright has done many mods and he says the Sony 5400 is better sounding that the Oppo83SE for Audio,also He is just coming out with a complete total mod Vacuum tubes, Lundal transformers Caps resistors and... | |
| Best Blu-ray/DVD player for under $800? The Sony scdxa5400es is a excellent choice and even better for sacd then anyone else! | |
| Oppo BDP-83SE or Sony SCD-XA5400ES? The comparison of the Sony XA5400 and the Oppo BDP83seIs odd the Oppo has much more features speakig of videoI spent the weekend comparing them my brother has the Oppo for his home theatre and Sony for 2 channel .The Oppo may have a little more lo... | |
| Anybody familiar with Mundorf silver&oil caps To all out there on Bypassing caps these Vishay 1837bypass caps are very clean and the tolerences are better than your main caps 1% or better .I use the .1uf for all the larger caps over 1.5uf anything smaller than that it would change the cutoff ... | |
| Best Balanced Tube Preamplifier The Rogue Hera or Athena is Superb, the 6h30 is the most linear preamplifier tube out there The Bat sound may be darker is because they use a bunch of Jensen oil caps.Where Rogue uses the Excellent Mundorf Supremewhich are a balanced cap in their ... | |
| Compare: Modwright LS 36.5 & Audio Research LS26 I can tell you with the 6h30 tube the DR is a little better but not worth $150 for 1 tube.A stock tube is only$30.I can tell you I bought my from Cryoset after their deep cycle it is not far off to the DR at 1/5th the cost and a very balanced char... | |
| Rogue Atlas vs Jolida 502A Rosponse Audio modded The Rogue Atlas Magnum is the finest amplifier I have heard for under $2k and beats many at 2x it's cost .90wpc tube power with outstanding upgraded parts. The heartof the unit uses a high silicon steel transformer all wound in the U.S this unit w... | |
| Primaluna and Rogue knowing the kt-88 tubes very well I can tell you the new Electroharmonix KT-90 tubes are like a el-34 tube on steroids very good at the extremes and still have some of the magic the el-34 s are known for .All Rogue 150s that have the New Magnum mo... |