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In Reply to: RE: REVIEW: Vacuum State Electronics VSE modified Sony SCD-XA5400ES with Terra Firma Lite SACD Player (Modded) posted by Metralla on August 09, 2009 at 15:49:59
The only question that matters is how does a very expensive Wright modded XA5400ES sound compared with a stock one ? Are the Wright modders related ?
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We don't have a second 5400 here Un-Upgraded to compare with. But we listened extensively before working on it, and for a stock machine thought it was very good.
To say it's VERY expensive is rather off the mark - Metralla got the pricing incorrect, I would estimate the Upgrade could come in around $1500, which even with a new machine included, still is not more expensive than a Marantz K1 pearl!
There is no family connection between Allen Wright of vacuum State and Dan Wright of ModWright. I'm a new Zealander living in Switzerland, he's an American.
Regards, Allen (Vacuum State0
Allen,
My 5400 is here now - just arrived tonight. It has balanced outputs so I could plug it right into my BAT VK50SE using balanced interconnects.
I'd like to stay that way with the VSE modification - well, the BAT has no RCA inputs at all. You mentioned that you might be looking at that.
Regards,
Geoff
The player is the first sensible player we have seen, in that it doesn't go balanced to unbalanced, then back to balanced again in the audio path.
The DACs are balanced output, and SONY keep it balanced throughout - although with opamps.
We are just taking the balanced signal out of the DAc and also treating it fully balanced all the way to the XLR sockets...but using our own fully balanced non opamp, non negative feedback unique circuit.
Regards, Allen (Vacuum State)
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