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In Reply to: Marantz SA-15 redbook posted by csig on June 12, 2006 at 05:17:00:
.... my experience is that no player out of the box is all that great unless modified. Similarly, the benchmark DAC 1, although good out of the box, can be made to really sing the music with apprpriate mods. Steve Nugent at Empirical Audio waved his magic wand over my two DAC1s and transformed them into superb high end DACs.So, in a not too helpful reply to your post I suggest you contact one of the modders for advice about which player they recommend responds best to their massage. I had purchased a Marantz SA-17 before being properly educated on this topic and had it extensively (and expensively due to the no. of black gate caps involved) modded by Soundlabs Group in Melbourne. They did a great job and I'm hearing superb sounding music (on well engineered recordings) but I would not claim the Marantz to be superior to Sony etc. Inmates here appear to have had great results with Sony gear but maybe it boils down to the cost of the original player + cost of the mod.
As a postscript, I've compared the output from the modded digital out of the Marantz -> modded Benchmark DAC 1 to the L/R analog stereo out of the Marantz (meaning using the internal Marantz DAC) and the former is better, but not by a wide margin. All signals were fed into a MacIntosh C200 preamp -> Plinius SA 250 III amp -> Sound Labs full range electrostat speakers and we had to listen hard to prefer the DAC 1 route. So, what I'm trying to say in a long winded way is that a modded player should be enough if the mod is done well and the Benchmark DAC 1 would not improve things unless it was very extensively modded.
Maybe this will help
John
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- No comparisons made but .... - John C. - Aussie 09:39:17 06/12/06 (1)
- Re: No comparisons made but .... - csig 05:09:41 06/13/06 (0)
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