TRL Marantz Sa-14

Unless you can find a "before and after" owner of an SA-14, the best person/people to ask would be the TRL guys. Paul or Brian would honestly be able to tell you, in detail, what the differences will be.

They don't really have anything to gain by telling you. They Don't manufacture the machines (obviously) - so one more mod isn't going to make, or break them. You'll find them to be, honest, ethical, and professional all the way.

I have no connection with TRL, other than, I am one happy customer. :-)

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paul

Yeah, I'm one happy customer as well. The improvements will be as stated here previously, greatly widened/deeper soundstage, thunderous incredibly well defined bass, greatly improved micro and macro dynamics, beautiful highs, etc. I have a pretty darn good dac, and I was floored by the amount of improvement the mod made. There was no single way I could have gotten close to the improvement any other way in my audio system that I did in the mod.

Jasonwells-

Which transport are you using with your DAC?

Another way to look at it is, and all this is, is, another way to look at it: how many modified TRL CD players have you seen for sale on this site? I'm a pretty regular Audiogoner and I have only seen one.

Sony SCD777ES modded by richard Kern.