On the contrary, I feel that the SB can exceed the capabilities of many exalted CDP's - or at least their transports. There are numerous good engineering reasons why this might theoretically be the case, but at the end of the day your ears (brain) have to decide. I know many will scoff at the SB beats Naim/dCS/Esoteric/(insert your fave transport here) hypothesis, but I've owned and been lucky enough to borrow many of the "top drawer" transports and I'm personally never going back...
On modding, I think the linear PSU is a minor improvement to the SB transport - not earth shattering (but worth doing). I don't feel the need to spend £'00's on exotic capacitors or digital transformers - and bearing in mind I am not using the SB DAC, there's only so much that can be "modded" on the transport side... I am so happy with the sound of my system now, I'm spending money on source material (CD's for ripping) and backup disks and system remotes. For me the two biggest changes I ever made to my sound quality/enjoyment were (in order)fully active speakers and room correction. After that it's all been increasingly thin icing on top of a very nice cake. YMMV of course. Phil -- Phil Leigh ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Phil Leigh's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=85 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=23948 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list audiophiles@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
