Electrocompaniet EMC II CD Player

Jm88...haven't heard the BAT, but the vocals in my XLR'd EMC-1 are clearly rendered and spookily real. Tubes do this well, too, of course, but sometimes via a mid-band spectral "bump". The power supplies' diodes mod clearly brought the stage forward a bit, somewhat enhancing vocal "push". Steve's modding the transport suspension? Seeing as that's the EMC-1's raison d'etre I'm a bit surprised. I would have thought he'd concentrate on $$ caps and wire bits....

This thread has been quiet for a while, but at one point someone asked others with the Spider to post their impressions. I just got one on Monday, put it in Monday night, but couldn't listen until today. My reactions are more or less in line with Cello's, it was a significant change in the sound, across the frequency spectrum, and it was evident right from the very first cymbal hit on track 1 of the first CD I put in.
Strangely enough, though, my overall reaction is that my system seems to sound more 'analytical' or 'etched', and less emotionally involving (to me anyhow). For 3 hours today I sat there with that 'hmmmmmmm........' perplexed look on my face. By most audiophile standards, it was better, but.....I couldn't convince myself that I really LIKED it better. More listening is needed, under better conditions (I had just shoveled out my 20x60 driveway for the 3rd time in 24 hours). My system (which I finally got around to posting after more than 2 years on here) is oriented toward resolution and detail, maybe too much of a good thing with the Spider? Well, these are just quick first impressions anyhow.

Oneprof...and now a fortnight later?

Hi,

This is my first time to write this thread and I got spider today. My emc-1 up is five years old and I thought I try to improve it first by using a spider and I must say it was much more impressive than I thought. My system sound is and was quite analog(Ref3a RV, Karan Acoustics i180, EMC-1 up+ Acoustic zen cables xlr)at least I think so, but what comes to this spider it makes everything little bit more real(soundstage, deeper bass, somehow sound was more firm the way I liked it a lot, perhaps even more transparent but still analog) and I have to admit the sound of emc1 up has always been very enjoyable.

What comes to mods of emc-1 up I have also consider that and I knew Emprical audios mods, but coz I live in Europe it is little bit too complicated and I try to find something from Europe. There is one company Audiocominternational who is making different kind of levels of mods to emc1, but there is so little information about how good is final result and the quality of job I wonder should I go that path or not. If anyone has any information about this let me know it.