Sorry to be a wet blanket, I remember this Sony player we had the full ModWright version including a few other players in a shoot out . It was chosen because of the seemingly very popular online appeal with references as a giant killer .
Others we had on had the entry level EMM Labs player , mid line CEC transport and entry level Esoteric player.
The self noise of the Sony was horrendous with a capital H and quickly topped as the worst out of the others we had on hand . Though using quality footers helped with the cold digital glare the Sony almost sounded like a totally different player the footers helped over tube swaps including trying different interconnects and power cords , footers helped a lot under this player and power supply.
In the end we couldn’t figure why this player has such online popularity and was referred to as a giant killer...
Others we had on had the entry level EMM Labs player , mid line CEC transport and entry level Esoteric player.
The self noise of the Sony was horrendous with a capital H and quickly topped as the worst out of the others we had on hand . Though using quality footers helped with the cold digital glare the Sony almost sounded like a totally different player the footers helped over tube swaps including trying different interconnects and power cords , footers helped a lot under this player and power supply.
In the end we couldn’t figure why this player has such online popularity and was referred to as a giant killer...