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Transport ? - Mod a Sony 7700 or go another route

I've been wrestling with wether or not to have Empirical Audio do the turbo mod to my 7700 for probably 9 months now. I'm about to give birth.

What's holding me back is spending $800 to modify a $250 dvd player. Are there other options out there in the $500 - $750 range that would equal or surpass the turbomod? I know everyone who has done the turbomod has loved it, so I'm really looking for other possible suggestions. If there are none and the turbo mod is the way to go, so be it, then let it be done!

For alternatives I've been looking at Theta Data, EAD, PS Audio, Sonic Frontiers SFT-1 or the parasound belt drive. Some are harder to find than others. If the Turbomod would kick all of their butts then it might just make sense to do that.

I'm currently running the transport to a Nixon tubedac, through a Philly audio blues preamp to an Odyssey Stratos stereo extreme and finally through Odyssey Lorelei's.

Thanks.
byteme

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alex_yakovlev
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I did pretty much everything possible to my former 7700. If I was paying someone else to do this it would probably cost me well over thousand (I invested about $450 in parts alone). By the end I had a decent transport, but nothing outstanding.
Ended up selling it and buying another DVD player to rebuild, but that's just me... :)
If I were you, I would probably sell 7700 and buy a good used dedicated transport.
alex_yakovlev
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Audioengr,
I am feeding external clock into all my digital components, so I disconnect internal clock completely. I also use only BNC for data connection, thus impedance is first thing I adjust. I did make few changes to path, though I'm sure something else could be done.
It would be much easier to modify dedicated transport my next project would probably be building one from scratch using transport mechanism by most likely universal TEAC.
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