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| sacd help please Practically, every equipment will work with SACD with its passive filter in "standard" mode. In some models you can move this filter to 'custom' mode which is increased bandwidth. most people find that sacd music at this setting is better or much ... | |
| Sony 9000 ES SACD output stage cold Dekey: I implied both modes (changes were done in analog stage). You have to give unit another 200-300 hours to fully "open up". Rcprince: One of many advantages of SACD over CD, as you said, is greater dynamic range. Sony and others utilize it in... | |
| Sony 9000 ES SACD output stage cold I received my 9000es from Stan Warren (541/344 - 3696) a couple months ago and posted results. In brief, Stan substantially improved detail, size of the soundstage, imaging. Better midrange and bass. Mod costs $250 plus shipping. | |
| SCD-1 vs DVP-S9000ES Moras... I agree with you and will add another consideration. "market". Rule of the tumb in audio industry that for each dollar invested in manufacturer, six must be added to retail. You must think about competitors! This is rational for modding: ... | |
| 350 SACDs and Counting The list miss number of SACD's: First Impression Music, Red Rose, Vanuard, ASV are first coming to mind; Sony announce future release of 10 multi-channel, Telatc seven, Delos seven, DMP four, BIS one, Hyperion one, rap labels zero... | |
| Marantz SA-14 topkat: you are not Top Cat and I am afraid not even avearage one. No one, to my knoweldge, said that SA-14 is better then SA-1 IN ALL ASPECTS. In some aspects SA-1 is better in other SA-14. For example SA-14 DAC is of latest design and... and... ... | |
| Marantz SA-14 Morasp: The person who compared SA-14 with SA-1 is Jonathan Carr, hi-end turntable and preamp designer living in Japan. Almost word-in-word confirmation came from Richard Kern (www.audiomod.com) who very succesfully modified SA-14 to ellininate it... | |
| stan warren,PIONEER mod. Hi: Sneech.... Stan Warren modifies my DVD/SACD Player Sony 9000es excellently. Before that MSB link, Stax electrastatic headphones, Adcom amp and I don't remember what else. I know he modded also Wadia 850 but is was not mine so I should not comm... | |
| scd 777es sacd sony mod worth it? Hi: The best you can do is to search AudioAsylum for this name. In brief, there were about a dosen highly positive reports of modifications of SA-14, SCD-1, 777es and 333es.I also planning to give his some component (other then 9000es which was al... | |
| DAC or Upgraded Analogue in SACD units? Lakenfront: Some, me included, feel strongly that five filters simply distort music in five unique ways. Keep "STD" which provide the most "life like" reproduction and work on the rest of your system to make it less noisy, mory silky or whatever | |
| DAC or Upgraded Analogue in SACD units? onhwy61: I cannot understand logic of people who upgrade only part of front end i.e. CD via extrenal DAC vs entire front end SACD+CD together. If I to put my limited resources I would go 2nd way, which I did (mod by Stan Warren for $250 plus fanta... | |
| Levinson 360s + Sony 9000ES ? Hello Lev335: In AA.com (SACD forum) there is John Mark (from John Mark Recording Label) post on the subject. He claims that in highh quality equipment both balanced and single ended should sound about the same. Many people do not match output dur... | |
| Levinson 360s + Sony 9000ES ? Hi: you are the second person who makes similar claim (I presume you compared CD-to-CD). If you sure that its not mistake ( I had Sony 777es and 9000es and prefered 9000es - my personal choice) then sell your 360. Don't change your interconnects w... | |
| Bel Canto 1.1 - Convince Me. Megasam: Mathematecally, both upsampling and over sampling is the same (identical). in practice, upsampling is done in separate chip whereas oversampling is done within digital filter. All arguments is where interpolation (which is another way of ... | |
| Too snobbish for SACD as it exists? 9000es finish is gorgeous in black laquer! The sound? Well its only Sony. When I will win lottery I will buy Accuphase for $28 or car or something. I will offer my take on the situation. Many people simply happy with RedBook and have inertia to mo... |