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Many people are asking which players or amplifiers are affordable and can be moded into real high-end gear.
Which player offer best value for tuning and/or modification ?
If you are looking for a multiformat player, OPPO 980H is our recommendation.
This player will offer excellent CD and high definition LPCM playback.
The player can be modified into a stereo top performer by adding vicol-audio in-house dac based on CS4398.
SMPS power supply will be fully modified reducing EMI. All low cost chinese capacitors will be replaced with high quality low ESR.
Output stage will be changed to a configuration without any capacitors in signal path.
This will enhance musicality and resolution to a level where price/performance is almost unbeatable.
We sell OPPO 980H ready modified. Please ask for current stock.
In case you are more focused on red book format and therefore looking for a very good CD player, Harman Kardon HD970 is a real killer.
Based on Anagram technology implemented over Analog Devices Blackfin processor, make from this player an excellent upsampler.
This player exhibit also in power supply where no less than 8 regulators are taking care of analog and digital-servo sections.
A top converter was used in digital to analog conversion as well: AD1955.
Beside this, the player can be used as a separate dac, which is a great feature for people who are using a separate source.
Another big plus is that optical transport can be anytime replaced with a new CD/DVD PC unit.
Modifications to this player address all sections, starting from transport dampening to complete modification of output stage.
Nonoversamplig fans, or purist sound lovers, are advised to look for old but very well designed players like:
Studer 727, Revox-Studer B226, Arcam 5+, Marantz CD7, NAIM AUDIO CD3, PHILIPS CD-960.
Based on old and very good Philips CDM transports and TDA1541A dac, these players can be moded to nonoversampling taking full advantage of Ryohei Kusunoki theory.
Digital filter remove, installing Tentlabs low jitter clock, Dynamic Element Matching recloking, custom output I/V stage, are few modifications we made in order to revive these players to a new and reach life.
For questions and/or inquires please use contact page.