Jax2
I can and do appreciate your exp and no doubt the modding path has been a beneficial one for yourself and Im glad for you.
You and I aren't too different nor for that matter are most of those who frequent the high end audio market. Very little of the abundance of gear is available for local preview. some of which that is available, Ill just not go thear due to the way that dealership treats people routinely and Ive tried more than a couple times to do business with them in spite of their erudite and arrogant attitudes.
90% + of my rig has been purchased sight unseen/unheard. Nearly all were leaps of faith. Yet nearly all of these leaps of faith were fortified with plenty of press and other current & previous owners recommendations. In spite of some actually.
I do my due dilligence as it is to me to do and thats exactly my point as you agreed by saying some of the modders will sometimes show off their mods at some of the shows. Id guess these show pieces are their full on mods as well.
Exactly. Some, sometimes, somewhere. Maybe.
Specific alterations for improvement arent for the greater part responsibly accounted for too often. Nor are those accounts ongoing in the more common areas one would look to for such reports only short raves are posted from those who have subscribed to and paid for them.
As such, these reporters have a vested interest and cant be considered objective descriptions IMHO.
Well, not 100% anyways. Neither do I discount them wholely.
On the other side of that coin of vaunted increase, is the reliability and contact issue. I tried a couple years ago to contact some of these after market aficinadoes and from some was not even given so much as a simple reply email. Only Steve of Imperical, Mr. Jesse out of Michigan and Richard Kern have spoken to me on some CDP improvements. One was far beyond my ability and the others were left unrealized given the results of the conversations.
A couple others I got to that have a reputation for upgrading components struck me as quite biased and arrogant outright talking down dissmissively of various manufacturers designs relative to their own efforts. Consequently I gave them no further thought.
People are people I suppose and I guess one cant expect everyone to be polite and objective. I believe one can expect contact and communication to be part and parcel aspects of doing business with them however and in my exp, this last facet has shown itself to be less than satisfactory. Ill also add Ive had even less satisfaction with standard ongoing prominent makers of high end gear too. Quite possibly this vein is simply put, what one has to deal with in upscale audio concerns and that is indeed a shame.
Nevertheless, I understand the constraints of gear makers which follow a more wide spread concern dissallowing a no holds barred effort and the after market adjusters which affford the end user an opportunity for greater gain.
Fine. Good.
I would merely prefer to see more objective accounts, such as those written on R. Kerns and D Wrights and others efforts. There are quite a few online outlets for such info too for this to not be done.
I see no reason to keep any viable measured performance enhancements as more the well kept secrets variety, rather than the openly reported.
Hope you can see the sense in my opinion here hopefully more modders do too. Id dearly love to hear objective accounts from any of these hot rodders less than full on mod results in the same online publications we all enjoy and use routinely for help in making our buying decisions. Of course there are those rags which will not publish such matters yet there are those which would.
Naturally as I mentioned also having units on hand which possess such alterations for home trials would surely gain for them far greater appeal.
Shedding such a brighter light on things would benefit both modder and moddee.
I mean given the choice in our leaps of faith, would not all of us prefer to just jump a school bus or two, rather than the Grand Canyon?
We aint all Evil Knevils, ya know.
and isnt BETTER a pretty vague word after all.
I can and do appreciate your exp and no doubt the modding path has been a beneficial one for yourself and Im glad for you.
You and I aren't too different nor for that matter are most of those who frequent the high end audio market. Very little of the abundance of gear is available for local preview. some of which that is available, Ill just not go thear due to the way that dealership treats people routinely and Ive tried more than a couple times to do business with them in spite of their erudite and arrogant attitudes.
90% + of my rig has been purchased sight unseen/unheard. Nearly all were leaps of faith. Yet nearly all of these leaps of faith were fortified with plenty of press and other current & previous owners recommendations. In spite of some actually.
I do my due dilligence as it is to me to do and thats exactly my point as you agreed by saying some of the modders will sometimes show off their mods at some of the shows. Id guess these show pieces are their full on mods as well.
Exactly. Some, sometimes, somewhere. Maybe.
Specific alterations for improvement arent for the greater part responsibly accounted for too often. Nor are those accounts ongoing in the more common areas one would look to for such reports only short raves are posted from those who have subscribed to and paid for them.
As such, these reporters have a vested interest and cant be considered objective descriptions IMHO.
Well, not 100% anyways. Neither do I discount them wholely.
On the other side of that coin of vaunted increase, is the reliability and contact issue. I tried a couple years ago to contact some of these after market aficinadoes and from some was not even given so much as a simple reply email. Only Steve of Imperical, Mr. Jesse out of Michigan and Richard Kern have spoken to me on some CDP improvements. One was far beyond my ability and the others were left unrealized given the results of the conversations.
A couple others I got to that have a reputation for upgrading components struck me as quite biased and arrogant outright talking down dissmissively of various manufacturers designs relative to their own efforts. Consequently I gave them no further thought.
People are people I suppose and I guess one cant expect everyone to be polite and objective. I believe one can expect contact and communication to be part and parcel aspects of doing business with them however and in my exp, this last facet has shown itself to be less than satisfactory. Ill also add Ive had even less satisfaction with standard ongoing prominent makers of high end gear too. Quite possibly this vein is simply put, what one has to deal with in upscale audio concerns and that is indeed a shame.
Nevertheless, I understand the constraints of gear makers which follow a more wide spread concern dissallowing a no holds barred effort and the after market adjusters which affford the end user an opportunity for greater gain.
Fine. Good.
I would merely prefer to see more objective accounts, such as those written on R. Kerns and D Wrights and others efforts. There are quite a few online outlets for such info too for this to not be done.
I see no reason to keep any viable measured performance enhancements as more the well kept secrets variety, rather than the openly reported.
Hope you can see the sense in my opinion here hopefully more modders do too. Id dearly love to hear objective accounts from any of these hot rodders less than full on mod results in the same online publications we all enjoy and use routinely for help in making our buying decisions. Of course there are those rags which will not publish such matters yet there are those which would.
Naturally as I mentioned also having units on hand which possess such alterations for home trials would surely gain for them far greater appeal.
Shedding such a brighter light on things would benefit both modder and moddee.
I mean given the choice in our leaps of faith, would not all of us prefer to just jump a school bus or two, rather than the Grand Canyon?
We aint all Evil Knevils, ya know.
and isnt BETTER a pretty vague word after all.
