Philips 963 Sound Modifications

Ric Schultz is able to be reached at tweakaudio.com
He discusses his mods to Philips 963 which you are looking for, and can be reached by using the email address provided on his website.
I also listen to an Aronov amplifier in one of my systems, as you do. Surely one of the overlooked top performers in audio.
Please post your experience, after mods are completed by the man of your choice.

Like Listener57 (how have you been?), I second Ric Shultz. His mod's to my Sony and Pioneer units have been awesome.

I hear good things about Modwright (Dan Wright) as well.

Do a search on AudioAsylum, probably lots of remarks there, for these gents and more.

Good luck, and enjoy !

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www.acousticreality.com
www.sacdmods.com
www.audiocom-uk.com
www.referenceaudiomods.com
www.vacuumstate.com

The question should probably be...who doesn't mod the Philips 963sa?

Greg

I've contacted with Dan Wright about modding the 963 and at least at the time I wrote him, he said that he had no plans to offer mods for this unit.

Russ

If you haven't purchased a 963a yet, I would look at the Pioneer 563a. I just got one modded by Alex Peychev (http://www.aplhifi.com/Pioneer563a.html)

Wow, what a unit...all for under $700 and it includes the player. It still isn't broken in but the sound is incredibley transparent and smooth....unlike the XA777ES and Consonance SACD 2.0 I had. Another thing I noticed is there is NO sibilance to my SACDs. This was a problem which I heard with the other two players (more or less).

Alex told me the player is actually is a better unit then the Phillips 963a. It offers a REALLY NICE transport/DSP assembly that is important for building on.

By the way, Alex couples the DAC with Lundahl transformers and replaces the opamp output stage with his discrete "no feedback" circuitry.