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| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? 711smilin- Yes, the thread is about Marantz units. I have one. MrChips has several apparently. Baranyi has a couple. Jes45 has one. You have none to my knowledge and have never owned a TRL modded one either. I never claimed the TRL modded unit was... | |
| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? 711smilin- Thanks for your typical insightful input Steve. :)As for how much modded units sell for- no one ever gets what they invest into a modded unit. That is a fact of audiophile buying and selling. It does seem better to lose a few hundred th... | |
| Anyone done TRL mod on Ah Tjoeb? Call or email TRL. They have worked on a lot of Marantz players and of course are experts at tubes.They could help you assess your options and are not pushy. | |
| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? MrChips- Ironically, the SA1 player you worship at the altar of Audio Dogmatism has been directly compared by several people (including some in this very thread) to the actual digital front end in my system.Many people prefer the modded TRL SA14 o... | |
| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? MrChips - We are so honored you took time from your busy schedule to enlighten us.GMAFB. | |
| Sony s7700 mods by Empirical Audio. "Stock CD's have a lot of jitter in them, so I recommend duping them to CD-R."Interesting Steve. Has there been some tests done that verify this? Is there something about the commercial pressings that create read errors?I use EAC @ 16X for copying... | |
| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? Baranyi-Not sure if you thought my post was useless :) but there are people who come on here who claim the SA 1 is better than anything-even a TRL modded SA14 (which you are familiar with).Others think it was overpriced and over engineered for the... | |
| TRL Marantz Sa-14 Quicksilver is the real deal.It is used by many professional modders, including TRL.I would recommend trying it out as it makes a noticeable positive difference for many people. | |
| Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.? Some people claim it is still a benchmark.Others say not so.I would do some searches here and at Audio Asylum Hi Rez and see what you come up with. | |
| TRL Marantz Sa-14 La45- The most obvious change @ around 300 hours will be bass extension from my experience FWIW.I was also a little anxious about bass weight and extension, but once it kicks in you should have it in spades. Very clean natural extended weighty low... | |
| TRL Marantz Sa-14 Jack-LOL! Kitchen almost done. Had turkey day here and we broke in the new oven. I am broke now so doing cheap tweaks :)Kitchen remodels are the crack-cocaine of today's women.Am wondering about power conditioning for the TRL SA14.The Audio Magic ... | |
| Liquid CD treatments? Dred- Nice setup. Couple thoughts FWIW.I have an MF A300 integrated which I liked very much.I had it modded and much of the electronic glare was removed and the noise floor was reduced dramatically.The reason I state this is that the front end is ... | |
| Liquid CD treatments? What is your setup?Many systems with digital front ends sound as good or better than high end analog these days, but there are many factors that contribute to the overall sound. Every little thing seems to matter.As for CD treaments, Shine Ola is ... | |
| TRL Marantz Sa-14 Agree that around 300 hours it really kicks in.Changes continue after that but they seem more incremental. | |
| TRL Marantz Sa-14 I am running non-balanced as my integrated does not have balanced connections.Was wondering of anyone uses power conditioning of any type on this unit?Was thinking of an Audio Magic Mini Digital passive unit, or a modded ART unit Paul at TRL sugge... |