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What is your experience with Muscial Concept Mods?

I recently purchased a Hafler 200 amp used and was thinking of having Musical Concepts do their Signature mod on the unit. However, it will be around $1K and I am concerned since I will not know how the modified unit will sound. Two questions: (1) What do members think of Musical Concepts Signature Hafler Mods and/or think of Musical Concepts mods? (2) Would I be better off buying a used SS or tube amp of of Audiogon for $1K. If so what would you recommend?

I have AR 2ax speakers, sound value pre-amp (older tube pre-amp), and rotel CD player with a modified Lite DAC (modified with black gate caps). I like to listen to jazz (Dave Koz, Chris Botti, KennyG, etc) or older rock (Eagles, Beatles, etc.).

Thanks for taking time to read my questions and provide feedback.

CBMAN
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What will the Hafler 200 sell for on Audiogon after it has the $1000 mod, and how long would it take to sell it? I suspect that if you sold the Hafler and added a thousand dollars, you might get an excellent recent production brand name amp, which you could easily resell when you moved on.
In this price range are many excellent choices, but my choice is a solid state Conrad/Johnson (2200, 2300, 2250, 2500). Because you have a tube preamp, the 100K input impedance of the CJ of might be helpful.
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