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Cannot comment about the Modwright Sony. However, the Modwright Oppo BD-83SE Nuforce is a truly remarkable unit. We compared it to a lot of CD players, DAC's, etc, and the Modwright Oppo was a lot better in all cases. That unit is so good, that I sent in my BD-95 for the tube upgrade. There is a synergy with the Oppo units and Dan's upgrades that exceeds the sum of the parts.
Who's we? Do you have a financial interest here?Thanks,
Glad you said "nearly". I'm in the opposite boat, I find nearly every cheap BD/DVD player unlistenable for music and would gladly take a 10 year old flagship.
"We" is referring to some of my fellow audio guys locally. One of them is very experienced with this field, and has a wealth of knowledge with all kinds of systems. He has made amps, preamps, retores/upgrades amps/speakers, etc., and is in high demnd for his services.Regarding the other issue, rather silly question to ask, don't you reckon? Of course, the answer is NO!Every once in a while, an audio component comes along that really moves the ball far down the field, and it's performance far exceeds the cost. That is the case here.
Why is that a silly question, if you did have a financial interest in promoting this you probably wouldn't admit it?A quick search of the model revealed your review in at least one other forum and I was just wondering. It's not unheard of to promote a product in such a manner. That's why you sometimes see statements about no personal interest or disclaimers by dealers. It's a perfectly legitimate question. No offense meant. I obviously haven't heard this unit. Your enthusiastic description seems overly optimistic? It corrects crappy sounding digital recordings and makes them great, or it sounds so good with a handful of digital recordings that you use as a reference? Excuse me for being skeptical, but other Modwright units aren't considered the last word in digital playback. Could it be that the configuration with this unit has a synergy with your system that seems to make it extra special? Throw a couple of tubes on the output stage and it's like magic? I'll look into it a little more. Maybe you can tell us what, exactly, makes this so great.
I did look into it a little. You have to buy an Oppo 95 Blue ray player, around $1100 - 1200, then send it in for mods. Little did I know, there is a Modwright circle here and consensus seems to be that the Mod-Oppo 95 sounds better playing files than discs, even when the file comes from a ripped disc. http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?topic=91731.120My guess is that transport damping and jitter reduction only go so far and that it's the DAC and output stage that makes the difference. I also think that John our moderator has it ass backwards. A $60 player isn't going to have high quality transport let alone advanced conversion/correction. John, I thought your post which mentioned Dakiom Star Trek thingies, was a sarcastic joke. Please tell me I was right the first time. It looks like Astronaut Glen has the right idea about PC based digital music. What I find a little disconcerting about this whole thing, is attitudes. I happen to like records and record players. Some people seem to put up with it and would ditch the whole thing in a heartbeat, if it were viable. This gives tacit approval for obnoxious comments about clicks and record noise, like we haven't heard enough of that comment lately. Most of my records are dead quiet. I don't mind an occasional click. It reminds me of reality, even seems endearing. Luckily, there are enough vinyl enthusiasts now, that we'll keep going for awhile. In the future some of us will be like grandpa in the basement with his model trains, only with record players. Funny how that notion keeps getting put back a decade or three. It's been 30 yrs and still no perfect sound forever. I'm confident that if you have a crappy sounding disc, rip it, play it back through whatever, it will still be crap.
john/tcg - if your cheap coby player has digital out (the dvd209 does - no longer made, afaik, but still f/s for <$30), go out and get yourself a dac, feed it w/an isolation transformer as well, and you will take your cd audio up another notch or seven. i, of course, recommend finding an art di/o dac, but these have been out of production a long time, and are hard to find. there are others out there as well, that would suffice. i have read good things about modded zhaolu dacs; those would also be worth looking into. my experience w/my modded art di/o has been that transport price is not wery important. i had great results with, among other things, a used 5-disc cd changer w/some p/s mods that cost me all of $80 on the used market...doug s.
One final note: today the wife and I went and auditioned an Audio Research CD5 player run into an AR LS27 run into a monster $13,000 AR amp through Magnepan 3.7s and it was better than the digital I have at home at the moment but not by leaps and bounds. Even an inexpensive turntable/cartridge/phono stage gave it a run for the money without making my ears feel clogged up which the CDs do.Thanks to everyone here for your help and especially to doug s. for lending me his art di/o to do some comparisons with and make an informed decision.
