TRL Marantz Sa-14

I've applied the ERS that has adhesive under the cover of my CDP and a piece over the transformer in the CDP and my amp. Noise floor seemed to drop and each note is a little more fleshed-out. A combination of ERS and anti-static paper may be the ticket. Paul indicated this will be his second SA-8260 he has done so if the person who has the other TRL 8260 is out there please chime in! I will keep you guys updated.

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I applied the ERS with copper sheets in strategic but safe areas around the transport. There is good space inside the Sony so its easy to apply. I am going at each application in small steps stoping and listening each step of the way.

I am using certain discs that I know have very little information and hope that the tuning will open up the sound even more without trading off musicality.

There is no science to this just a lot of fun experiments.

I just was informed that TRL will be sending me a TRL SA-11. Being that I owned one in stock form, it will be quite easy for me to hear any differences.

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Let us know what your impressions are.
Thanks.

I am using a Benz phonostage that TRL moded for me. They also made me a power supply to replace the wall wart it came with.

Guess I have it about 6 weeks now and about 125 hours. Kinda hard to breakin a phonostage.......lots of LP's spinning.

Anyway, I have owned this model phonostage a few times already. So I am very familiar with its sound.

Cleary there was a change as it broke in and the sound without question is different than the stock unit. I have the wall wart too, so I can judge without the better power supply.

My best description of what the TRL mod does is provide a smoother and more even tonal balance. Nothing appears out of place or calls attention to itself. Also, clearly there is MUCH less distortion and noise in the signal. I can hear low level detail more fully fleshed out. And this detail is presented in a tonally "human like" way. In other words, it sound real, not electronic.

About what was actually done is still a secret here. But my best guess is that the transistors in the gain stage have either been replaced with proprietary ones. Or the circuit has been altered to improve upon the stock transistors that came with the unit.

Thata all for now.