Justafan
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Hi all
Just a general query really. I have a Marantz 6000 OSE KI that I bought about 9/10 years ago and have always been happy with it. I just replaced my similarly aged Mission 780's with Leema Xero's and am loving the improvement in sound, but as my Marantz is now the oldest bit of kit by a decade my thoughts inevitably turn to upgrading!
While I've been researching a number of exciting sounding players (Shanling T80, Cambridge Aruz 840c) I stumbled across some websites offering mods and talk of replacing the internal clock and/or internal power supply. Having absolutely no experience in modding hi-fi stuff in the past I'd like to know whether these sort of options would really make enough of an improvement to warrant paying up to £500 (for both the best available clock and internal psu mods based on two websites I've seen tonight. there are cheaper mods available too) and the hassle of shipping my player away to them (I certainly wouldn't be confident of doing the work myself!) or would it be a better to just go for a completely new player, which would be a little more expensive?
I also live in an area that would require a good few hours travel to the nearest hi-fi store where I could demo other players to see how they sound these days so I can't easily compare other players unfortunately.
Any thoughts and theories on this practice and it's merit would be gratefully appreciated
Just a general query really. I have a Marantz 6000 OSE KI that I bought about 9/10 years ago and have always been happy with it. I just replaced my similarly aged Mission 780's with Leema Xero's and am loving the improvement in sound, but as my Marantz is now the oldest bit of kit by a decade my thoughts inevitably turn to upgrading!
While I've been researching a number of exciting sounding players (Shanling T80, Cambridge Aruz 840c) I stumbled across some websites offering mods and talk of replacing the internal clock and/or internal power supply. Having absolutely no experience in modding hi-fi stuff in the past I'd like to know whether these sort of options would really make enough of an improvement to warrant paying up to £500 (for both the best available clock and internal psu mods based on two websites I've seen tonight. there are cheaper mods available too) and the hassle of shipping my player away to them (I certainly wouldn't be confident of doing the work myself!) or would it be a better to just go for a completely new player, which would be a little more expensive?
I also live in an area that would require a good few hours travel to the nearest hi-fi store where I could demo other players to see how they sound these days so I can't easily compare other players unfortunately.
Any thoughts and theories on this practice and it's merit would be gratefully appreciated
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