You cannot go wrong with a modified player by Stan Warren. I have been in the digital upgrade game since 1983 (7 different cd players, and 3 different D/A's). After I found out about Stan, every digital unit that he modified outperformed anything 300% and more in price. This is what Stan is infamous for, i.e. performing modifications to particular modestly priced cd players and DAC's, which in the end will produce world class sound. (Many of his units have actually crushed other ultra expensive units, in a/b comparisons). Either Stan is a genius, or the rest of us are getting ripped off by the "so called" high end digital companies, that charge so much money for this "state of the art" digital stuff. There is a question that begs to be asked: Why isn't there a production cd player that can compete sonically at the same price point, as compared to what Stan Warren is offering? Is it really that hard to do...or...are we all suckers, for thinking that we have to spend tons of money to get world class sounding digital?
