Thiel Owners

@tomthiel Interesting that your contact for the SCD-1 recommended it not being on for a long stretch. Mine told me to keep it on all the time until the end of life. I am not so sure that is the best approach.

tomthiel

Thank You for the follow up. Bill certainly knows his business. Sad to hear the SCD-1 is on life-support.

Better news, there is a plethora of excellent spinners in the demo/used marketplace. Thanks to all who stream!

Happy Listening!

cascadesphil

which modded 83 do you own? I know that Oppo built a Special Edition 83.

Happy Listening!

yyzsantabarbara

did you purchase your SCD-1 new? If used, how long ago did you buy?
I would think that "modding" extends the spinners' life-span.

Happy Listening!

" cascadesphil

which modded 83 do you own? I know that Oppo built a Special Edition 83."

I have the regular 83 with the Modwright solid state mod (to all channels - in my old house at the time I had a Bryston SP1.7 as a pre/pro for my integrated AV system which was used via the multi-channel analog inputs).  At the time I decided to do the mod, I was using a Marantz DV9600 (https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/marantz-dv9600.72633/) as a universal player and after the mod the BDP-83 was better than the Marantz.  Since I'm 100% file playback now (unless someone brings discs over and that less than once/year - and, before I took hi-rez audio files from the few concert Blu-Rays I have, I used it once in a bit to listen to the hi-rez PCM mixes), the player is connected via the coax digital to my DAC (EMM Labs DAC 2X) and therefore I don't use most of the mods done to it.