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Upsamplers, DACs, jitter, shakes and analogue withdrawals, this is it.

LOL! Just hang on a minute there will you?

The Linn CD12 would stomp all over the SCD-1, chew up the pieces and spit them out before stomping on the remains.

OK, you`re happy with your SACD players with CD but the evalgelising is akin to Don King saying Peewee Herman could whup Lennox Lewis`s butt in a fair fight.

REALITY CHECK:
The guy who carried out the mods to his SCD-1 says he preferred it to his own Wadia - mods which cost probably in the order of the $3,000 quoted in an earlier post, can`t quite remember, but the fact is that thousands have to be spent on the stock SCD-1 before it is even @ parity with the Wadia, never mind the more expensive CD12.
By all means argue that the price of a stock SCD-1 + the price of mods is still cheaper than the Wadia, but consider that the modifier wasn`t exactly independent as he wants to modify the SACD players of others.

To get better performance with CD than the SCD-1 simply get a similar priced CD player - I`d even back a sub $1000 Heart CD6000 (tube output) against the SCD-1 in a blind listening test with an independent panel, and certainly an Audio Note DAC3.1x and any
model above with even a modest transport would wipe the floor with an SCD-1 or Marantz SA-1 in CD playback, and anything above DAC4.1 would provide an alternative to both in SACD mode.

Of course, the beauty of this hobby is that we`re all passionate with differing ideas about what sounds better than what, but I had to jump in with my own opinions before you gathered momentum and claimed the SCD-1 sounded better than the actual live performance :0)

Best Regards,
Chris Redmond.

BTW. Before you ask, yes I have heard every player I`ve just mentioned apart from the modded SCD-1.



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