The Mephisto responds well to revisions to the power supplies as well as clock and output....
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A friend of mine had a Mephisto. I had been doing some playing around inside a G&D Transforms Ultimate transport I was using at the time and I ordered enough parts to do the power supplies in both with Harris Hyperfast diodes and Muse caps and the Mephisto came to life.....My friend was so encouraged that he sent the unit to G&D Transforms who put in the new clock and output board along with their own pore supplies to run these boards with good results. G&D stopped taking in mods, but still sells clocks and output boards. The grounding in the Mephisto is all series rather than star, but it is such a beautiful unit it was worth the work and time involved to make it work a bit better. My friend sold his Mephisto and purchased a G&D UTP-1 transport, cheap upstart that was a touch better than the modified Mephisto.....If this interests you call G&D at 602-650-1155 or email at [email protected] as the Mephisto is probably the prettiest unit out there and it can be made to perform with the best with a little time and effort...... |
Lurne is a character as a number of years ago I borrowed one his record clamps from a friend and found I just had to have one to use with my Rockport Capella table....To make a long story short there was no importer and I had to deal direct and spoke to his wife several times in the few months it took to get several clamps for the Rockport turntable owners here in Houston....Some of the parts for the clamps came from Spain and on and on, but they finally did arrive.....The point is they are artisans rather than manufacturers..... |
I don't take in mods on unfamiliar units and the reason was rammed home again this weekend as I spent seven or eight hours getting a GamuT amp to behave......That surgery was a success BTW, but the owner lives in town......I would keep after Tony DiGiovine and he will probably think of someone who is qualified to do a mod on your Mephisto....Tony and I spoke the other night and lots of names popped up, but nobody with the experience necessary to do the work....Keep after Tony via email and maybe he will feel like taking in mods again one of these days..... Our preamp buttons say it is "Better than sex and almost as good as Bar-B-Q", but it is probably all hype anyway :-) |
Great information....The unit I modified was an early one and not CEC based......The one I modified had supply so small that the lights would dim when the transport started and would bear little relationship to the sound of a CEC based unit as they have much larger supplies than the early Mephisto..... |
The Mephisto is lacking in pace, dynamics and that sort of thing.....Pretty doesn't tell you how drunk the players are and the mods will get you most of the way there in terms of pace and immediacy.....G&D used to charge about $650 for the whole shooting match, but stopped taking the units in for mods.....Probably worth about $800 or so today for new clock, output board and power supply revisions and suggest you talk to G&D (see above for email and phone number) to see if they have someone they would recommend..... |