Black Gate Cap upgrade on Museatex Bitstream DAC

"Ubglub, I know John personally, and own a modified Museatex Transport, he already built the DAC with upgrades last year, but a cap went, I sent it back to him and he put in Black Gate caps I was curious if anybody heard a difference just from the blackgate cap upgrades"

Lush, thanks for clarifying. I didn't know who "John" was in your first post. I also didn't realize he is building new Bitstream DACs from the ground up. After the break-in period let us know if your new BG cap makes an audible difference.

A word of caution. The dac is unlistenable for two weeks after the new caps are put in. I would advise against even listening to it until after this point. After that, you'll have one of the finest dacs out there.

Hi Guys,

I bought a Bitstream dac updated to 2005 Data II specs w/ Black Gates and extra power supply mods a few months ago. I actually bought it off another A'Goner, Illia. I am extremely impressed by this dac - it almost analog sounding, in a good way - smooth, natural, detailed. It really closes a lot of the gap between CD & my vinyl rig. I've just got around to trying different Toslink and digital coax cables.

I also have a Melior/Museatex/Meitner CD-D transport that I just picked up. I sent Jon the serial number ,#89, and he mentioned that it was a very old unit. Although, it works flawlessly (for now).

The big question is if it is worth having it upgraded to the C-Lock T Anti-Jitter mod for $250?

Hey Darkmoebius, I actually bought John's personal transport off of him with all upgrades done to it. I can't comment on wheather the C-Lock upgrade makes a difference but I can recommened using a Moray James digital cable with the Meitner gear. Moray and John are good friends, and both use eachothers products to voice cables/mod's done. Ask John about the Moray James cables, they are quite brilliant with that gear.

Hi Lush,

That's great you his transport, you know it's in great shape. I kind of took a big risk with mine since John said they can't be fixed if anything goes wrong. So far, so good, though.

I'd love to have a Moray cable, but that $350 is a little out of my range right now. I still need to get a good pro amp for my passive subs and build some sound treatments. Though, I hear it is killer.

I'm hoping to find something affordable in the less than $125 that can get me by for a while until I can make the big step up. The Stereovox HDXV is doing pretty good right now. So are some Toslinks.