Marantz SA-1 holding up well agains next gen.?

Tvad-

Not trying to distort facts to make a case and I apologize if it appeared that way. I just did a quick search.

The basic point is that the original buyer for new digital units, and modded digital units takes a hit when selling.
This is not really a reflection on the quality of the actual unit-it is just what happens.
We all know that APL does excellent work as does TRL.

I recently saw an incredible deal for a pair of Parasound JC-1's modded by Steve Nugent that a person was selling.
Probably hard to find a better amp period at any price but even those were discounted substantially by the original buyer.

This is a crazy hobby.

Thank you Tvad! The McIntosh is a current player, but it was one of those "please mod it so it sounds better than my Samsung HD841 $299 player" local SF Bay Area jobs. Although it turned out quite nice sounding, I have not done any more of these, nor will I in the future. It has NO tube stage in it. The DV-50 job was a little more extended than the one stated at $1500 on my site because I have implemented 4 AKM DACs per channel on it. There is NO tube stage in it as well. Both of these are ALL Solid State with MOSFET Class A output.

The point is that, out of close to 100 Denon 3910 APL re-designs sold, there are none for sale anywhere at any price. To be fair, I have to say that there was one guy who sold his APL 3910 because it was not good enough to "calm down" the rest of his audio system. This one was sold 2 hours after it was posted for sale. You can read the Audiogon review the new owner posted for it here: http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rdgtl&1129336497&read&3&4&

Audiogon IS the World's best Audio Market Place, but there are NONE flagship APL products listed for sale on it. Sorry to say, this is rather very strange.

Jack, LuckyDog, et all, I have found the World's best "Epoxy for beginners" book. Please do not hesitate to email me with a request for it. I will be MOST happy to forward a copy to you at my cost.

Happy Holidays!

Alex Peychev

Alex: Thank you for your most generous offer for the book, but no thanks, I have no personal interest in becoming a digital player modifier. And, I'm happy with the service and house sound that TRL offers me.

If you want to send me a large print of the Saint James Bible, I'd appreciate that. (Some days it is hard to read the smaller print later at night).

I sincerely wish you, TVAD, and Steve Milin the best this coming year.

Happy Holidays,

Jack

I want to thank a couple of SA-1 owners who advised me to use XLR's on this player. The SA-1 is much more transparent using the XLR connections. In this configuration the SA-1 is far better than I previously thought. My unit is very cable sensitive as well. The differences in power cords can be easily heard. I have not heard all the other high dollar CD players out there but this is definitely musical player in this configuration.

As audiophiles we have our disagreements as is evidenced by this thread. But really, isn't this a great hobby or what!
With all the suffering in the world,aren't we blessed to be able to argue which of our machines make music more authentically. I wish the rest of the world had our issues!! Happy holidays to all!! Bob

Steve (711smilin), spare me and everyone else the insults. I can explain and refute much of what you said but not here.