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Finally, someone who makes sense!

*** making the sound "different" but never better ***

Actually, this applies to any mod. That's the problem: there's usually no empirical way of knowing just how "effective" a mod is.

Customer testimonials are suspect - unless you know their frame of reference and trust their judgement. Someone who has paid a lot of money to get a machine modded is predisposed to believe their money is well spent - hardly an objective view.

Speaking from experience, often I hear review units that initially sound impressive, but when I get "used" to the sound it doesn't seem so good anymore. So, what sounds "good" may not be so.

And in the case of mods, very few people get to hear the modded and unmodded units side by side over a long period of time. If they do, I wouldn't be at all surprised if they may even prefer the unmodded sound in some cases.

I would recommend that you ask the modder to provide some empirical evidence (from previously modded units) that the mod deliver statistically valid improvements in terms of "before" and "after" measurements - ie. lower noise floor, lower distortion, lower jitter.

If none of the measurements show any significant improvement, I would question whether the mod is effective.

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