Yeah, I didn't have someone blindfold me and have both units connected at the same time with a switch ready to go...
But I had my stock unit which I owned for several months when I heard about AP's mods. I believe he sent me a modded Transporter which he had sent out to some shows to demo. Anyways I listened to the modded unit, listened to my stock unit, made up my mind, and sent back my stock unit to Anthony with some price difference for the upgrades. If I didn't like the modded unit I would have just sent it back with no cost. There's no good way to A/B sound and music and the best ears can maybe discern barely 50% in reported previous "blind tests". But whether there's some placebo effect or not it doesn't matter if my ears are happy every time I sit down in front of my rig and my wallet is not complaining. BTW, for the work put into the unit, I think it was quite reasonable. I know the Slim Devices CEO has berated modded units and I respect the R&D that went into the Squeezebox and Transporter. Both are awesome devices in and of themselves. I do think someone that knows what they are doing can get more performance out of them, but to mass produce units like these with higher grade opamps, etc. etc. would bring costs up to probably at least 2x what they are selling for -- Cliff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Cliff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=12087 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=26306 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
