davehg Wrote: > Hmmm. I had what was considered a very good transport (Pioneer Elite > PDS-95), using a good digital cable (Acoustic Zen MC2) into a Class A > DAC (MF Tri-Vista). The SB3 stock was not 95%, rather more like 60%, > rising to 85% when feeding the Tri-Vista. The Bolder digital only > modified SB3 into the Tri-Vista was more like 110%, probably higher > with Bolder's latest platinum PS.
FWIW, the Acoustic Zen MC2 is a 110ohm cable that was designed to be used with an AES/EBU interface, not a 75ohm SPDIF interface; so right there your going to be introducing some reflection and jitter problems. (fwiw, I am an AZ dealer and have experimented with the MC2 vs. Silver Byte pretty extensively). But yes, I have heard that the modified SB2/3 by Boulder or Red Wine really bring the performance up. Also, while the stock Pioneer PDS-95 is a decent transport, it is on par with a stock Sony S7700...I suspect if you had gotten the mods from Empirical Audio (like the ones on my S7700), you'd have also seen a big improvement. > My own experience was happily selling the transport and getting the > benefit of the ease of use of the SB3 without sacrificing any of the > high end sound. My buddy has an even better system (VAC PA90D into VAC > reference preamp powering Joseph Audio Pearls) and I will be bringing > the system to his house for extended listening session. Yep...as I said, I have a number of audio club friends who sold their modified Sony S7700 transports and have happily replaced them with their modified SB2/3... -- PhilNYC Sonic Spirits Inc. http://www.sonicspirits.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PhilNYC's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=837 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=22301 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
