Squeezebox Duet - digital mods - which are best?


Hi
I have a Squeezebox Duet receiver with high quality linear PSU which feeds a Musical Fidelity A1008 DAC/amp. I’m looking for the best option for modifying the digital stages of the Duet (the analogue and wireless stages could go as I don’t use them).
The two ‘moders’ which come up regularly are Bolder cables (US) and Audiocom (UK). They both do effectively two stages of mods for around the same price. The Audiocom mods use Bybee devices (which seem a bit ‘smoke and mirrors’ to me), first stage is upgrading caps and adding Bybee thingys, the second stage is upgrading one of the voltage regulators and rewiring the coax output and adding a new connector. The Bolder first stage replaces caps and rewires the output and replaces the connector, the second stage also upgrades one of the voltage regulators.

I’d appreciate comments/recommendations on these mods. Thanks.

http://www.boldercables.com/servlet/Search?category=MODIFICATIONS
http://www.audiocom-uk.com/mod_inner.asp?id=59
rollier

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Rollier, I hope you won't mind me interposing a question to 2chnlben raised by his post. I was considering buying the Logitech Slim Line Transporter until I read your post about the PS Audio Perfectwave Dac. I saw the Paul McGowan youtube video on this DAC and it looks fantastic. By chance, did you compare the Perfectwave to the Logitech slim line transporter? As you probably know, the Perfectwave DAC cost $3,000 and the Slimline device I have seen on sale for about $1,600. Do you have any idea on what the cost of the PS Audio network bridge would be?