Amplifier Mods

Clio-
I just exchanged emails with Lkdog. He seems to second your view. His final line summed it up, "it's a no brainer".

I need to send my Sony 900 back to him for some upgrades. He said mine was one of the first ones they did and they've learned a couple new tricks since then. Maybe I'll send the McCormack at the same time. Although I won't be sending either for another month or so, I'll send them when we're on vacation, that way I won't be without them so long.

Ecruz,

My player will have the most up-to-date mods for the Sony 900, including the latest battery supply design. I will post something in the digital forum after it breaks in so you have an idea of what improvements you can expect. Even if you don't get the battery supply, the latest mods are significant in the amount of labor it took to design and implement.

I'm glad you spoke to Lkdog. He is really happy with his TRL modded amp. For the standard mod fee you really can't go wrong, after all it is guaranteed and if you don't like it you can get your money back and send it to SMc. The odds are greatly in favor of you liking what they do to it. Too bad you can't hear the D-225 just for the fun of it.

The D-225 may be down the road. Right now anything I do will be on the inexpensive side.

FYI, Paul said he'd bring my cd player up to the current mod for free. Of course I'd have to pay if I want the battery upgrade.

I still don't understand why you wouldn't simply find out exactly what the mods TRL would do are, so you can compare them to the mods SMc describes on their website. I recently bought a DNA-500 to compare with my DNA-125 as a way of trying to suss out where the SMc mods might lead me before going that route, which would probably be the Platinum mono's.

Not sure of the reasons, but Paul at TRL does not disclose exactly what they do, for any of their mods. He does tell you what improvements you can expect to hear and if you don't like what you hear he'll refund your money.