Looking for SACD player............

Not the SA8005, but the Sony 5400ES, which by all accounts from owners of both MW players is very similar in sound quality:

http:forum.audiogon.com/discussions/ayre-cx-7emp-vs-sony-scd-xa5400es-vs-oppo-bdp-95//

Best to you hifiman5,
Dave

@dlcockrum Thanks for the link.  I just finished reading that thread. Lots of well-conveyed sound impressions of pre and post MW mod.

There is excellent info in this thread- guys.

Thanks to the accolades many of you had for Modwright and a lot of reading about their mods., I sent my Marantz SA8005 away. Dan and Kristen were great to communicate with via email. They answered within a couple minutes on more than one occasion. Listening to vinyl for a few weeks (not at all a bad thing). Enjoying a Japanese pressing of the original Dire Straits effort. Great tunes with great sound.

Calling Parts Connexion tomorrow for a Hifi-tuning silver star 3A Slo Blo fuse to put in the 9.0 tube power supply. Tough to pass up on such good fuses being offered at 60% off! I’ll install that when my unit gets here around the end of January.

Tpreaves - Hope you are enjoying your modified Marantz.

Thanks to everyone for sharing your modification experiences in this thread.

You are about to be a very happy hifiman. Congrats!

Dave