Interesting... - Lew - Hi-Rez Highway

Interesting...

Posted by Lew (A) on August 15, 2006 at 10:03:02

In Reply to: Re: SCD-1 modified? posted by lenw on August 14, 2006 at 13:56:08:

My SCD777ES also had the Kern transport mod and the SC2, plus some super-regulators on the Audio Board. This gave a noticeable and welcome improvement vs stock but was not Nirvana by any means. Then about 2 years ago I made a lot of additional upgrades based on the posts of J Hietebrink, fmak, and others on this forum. This included changing the I/V converter chip and other chips downstream in the audio signal path, subbing Vishay resistors in key places, upgrading and bypassing filter caps, re-doing the ground scheme, changing the wiring from stranded copper to solid core silver, changing the RCA jacks, etc, etc. All of that work made an astounding improvement: sound stage just exploded in size, depth, and width, midrange and bass were much more transparent, cleaner, deeper. Highs are purer. I really did not believe that digital could ever sound as good as it did. Now these new generation players, e.g., the Cary and the Ayre and others, not to mention the ever improving aftermarket mods, have really got me thinking in a positive way. This is just like vinyl; just when the availability of the software is on the decline (re SACD) we have a renaissance in the capabilities of the hardware, albeit Redbood CD will remain with us as a constant for the foreseeable future. Right now I am getting ready to install an SC3 with battery power supply and thinking about a transformer-coupled output. (I keep thinking I have too much money, time, thought, and effort tied up in the 777 to dump it in favor of a new unit.)

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Topic - September tas review of Cary CD 306 CD/SACD Player - JCS 06:24:10 08/12/06 (16)

Re: September tas review of Cary CD 306 CD/SACD Player - MikeFi 12:30:23 08/17/06 (0)

Re: September tas review of Cary CD 306 CD/SACD Player - lenw 12:36:08 08/14/06 (6)

SCD-1 modified? - Lew 13:39:13 08/14/06 (5)

Re: SCD-1 modified? - lenw 13:56:08 08/14/06 (3)

Interesting... - Lew 10:03:02 08/15/06 (2)

Re: Interesting... - lenw 14:40:24 08/15/06 (1)

I was thinking along those same lines... - Lew 13:53:15 08/16/06 (0)

Meant to write, "If NOT, what mods?" (nt) - Lew 13:40:15 08/14/06 (0)

Re: September tas review of Cary CD 306 CD/SACD Player - Amfibius 01:47:23 08/13/06 (3)

What problems? - phillyb 18:53:35 08/16/06 (2)

Re: What problems? - Amfibius 22:51:49 08/16/06 (1)

Re: What problems? - PhillyB 10:14:05 08/17/06 (0)

Re: September tas review of Cary CD 306 CD/SACD Player - 24phun 18:56:03 08/12/06 (0)

Re: September tas review of Cary CD 306 CD/SACD Player - zako 07:51:53 08/12/06 (2)

Nice to be able to do both. (nt) - JCS 12:59:13 08/12/06 (0)

Indeed, but if one can afford a $6K SACD player, probably one can afford LOTS of real music. - jeffreybehr 09:59:52 08/12/06 (0)

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Interesting... - Lew 10:03:02 08/15/06 (2)

Re: Interesting... - lenw 14:40:24 08/15/06 (1)

I was thinking along those same lines... - Lew 13:53:15 08/16/06 (0)

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