Are the Denons the Best Universals to Mod?

I have had to really stop and ask myself some basic questions. Now that I have spent some significant time with an Exemplar 2900, I ask myself, is SACD really necessary? This player forced me to stop and think.

Prior to owning the Exemplar 2900 I owned the Sony XA777ES. SACD's on the Sony sounded very, very good to me. Way better than my redbook versions of the same discs. But after spending several months with the Exemplar I began to notice no significant difference, on many quality recordings, between the SACD and the redbook. For example, I owned two versions of Bill Evans 'Waltz for Debby': one was the SACD and one was the Super-K2 20 bit remaster. Well, on the Exemplar Denon, in my system, I could not tell a significant difference between the two, and, on a few tracks, I actually preferred the 20 bit remaster. This exeperience repeated itself a few times.

This has given me pause. It makes me wonder whether I should just go for something like an AA Capitole II and forget the whole Hi-Rez thing altogether (especially because I am two- channel and don't need DVD). While I have invested a lot of money in SACD only about %10 of them were music I re-bought and the vast majority were hybrids -- so it would not be hard to divest myself of the single-sided SACD's and keep the hybrids (which is mostly new music for me) if I wanted.

I have learned a lot and one of the things that keeps coming back to me is that maybe I just had never owned a really exceptional redbook player before the Exemplar. That is what I am thinking about these days. I have not come to any conclusions. Thanks for reading,

I agree with Oldpet on one thing:
Hey Doug Jesse at RAM, when am I going to be getting my modded Toshiba, or at least an e-mail response from you?
Its been almost a month now.
THIS IS GETTING REDICULOUS!

I just had communications with Doug Jesse yesterday. He also contacted Bluenose. He just recieved the clocks yesterday afternoon. He said he was buried in back log trying to get all these players out. That said I understand the frustration. Audiocom dropped the ball on getting the clocks out, leaving him in the middle.Hopefully everything will work out. I'm really interested in what you guys think of this unit when you recieve it. Bluenose stated in a email to me that his unit is shipping this week.I would think you guys machines would also be on the priority. The player really is worth the wait. I waited nearly 2 months for my Clari T amp. It nearly drove me to drink! Since recieving it ...it was also worth the wait.

Honestly I don't think he anticipated such a large interest in the Super clock 3s. Also I've been told Audiocom makes their clocks to order.They are tested and checked over before shipping. It takes more than a week to produce just 25 of these units.Rest assured these are high quality components.

Doug also stated he's added a optional high speed buffer stage to the mods for the Toshiba 3960.This is only for the 3960 because it uses a push pull voltage out Dac.