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In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Vacuum State Electronics DVP-9000ES Level 7 SACD Player (Modded) posted by finnman500@hotmail.com on January 24, 2009 at 06:24:13
In regards to considering a modded player it's best you look over the Vacuum State website and read up on it. There are plenty of review links there as well.
The reason that Allen mods the players is that the players are simply not designed the best way in the first instance, for many reasons. His mods greatly, greatly, greatly improve the sound to a standard that would cost you many, many, many more dollars from an off the shelf player.
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Hi Mark
Thanks for the info. I get it now. Modded is slang for modified. Duh! Silly me. I often overlook the obvious. As for my SACD player: I'm very pleased with it as is. On well produced SACDs, the sound is very, very close to vinyl without the extraneous noise. I haven't heard any player under $5000. that sounds better and most much worse.
Cheers.
I much prefer to use "upgrade" than modding. Anybody can change a few caps, throw in an additional part or two, or swap the odd IC here or there. That's modding (more like way to sell pricey parts). Almost anybody with minimum effort can do a mod. But a real "upgrade" is a far more arduous proposition, one that can take many months and even years to develop. One is just changes to an existing design, often minimally, the other stretches the limits of what can be done. At least it does in this case. "Terra Firma" isn't a mod, it's a totally different solution that challenges the status quo. The Vacuum State module completely replaces both DACs and all subsequent IC based circuitry. That's more like upgrading your computer by replacing and adding a super-duper state-of-the-art Video Card to feed your monitor. They don't call that a mod, that's called an upgrade.
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