DVP 9000ES Mods? Worth the money?

There are several good mod guys out there, as I'm sure others will point out, but the one I'm most familiar with is Ric Schultz at Electronic Visionary Systems(www.tweakaudio.com). If you read the info on his site you'll see a pretty convincing argument why, all else being equal, a one-box player is superior to using an outboard DAC(in fact he recently stopped producing his incredible Millennium DAC, which I use, to focus on modding DVD/SACD players). Ric also gives a nice overview of the different level of mods he does. One thing Ric does that I'm not sure many others do is to take all op amps out of the output stage and replace them with a discrete mosfet setup. Suffice it to say he does a lot more than simply swap individual parts, but you might also incur a bit of a wait to get your player modified--likely worth the wait though. Best of luck.

Tim

Today, I received my DVP9000 ES back from Stan Warren
at SuperMods. He warned me that it might sound a bit
harsh until it breaks in, but so far, the sound is
great! He told me everything he did, including the
whole "cryno" deep freeze treatment, but I can't remember
all the details. If it only gets better from here, I'll
be very pleased! Stan can be reached by phone only at
(541) 344-3696. I think my $250 was well spent!
Dave

I got my 9000ES modified by Stan Warren also, it is better than the SCD-777ES clearly and I sold my 777ES later. Stan is a very nice gentleman to deal with, highly recommended.