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    To mod or not. Marantz CD63 MKII Ken Ishiwata Signature

    Mostly been my approach for years.  Improve what?s there.  Not build something else in the same box.  No added valve outputs or just upping capacitance values everywhere.  Occasionally I have added a transformer to separate certain power sections.  Mostly better quality parts of same values. 
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    Artists and high end audio

    A post on vleisbook of some Cat Stevens records made me remember this.  I also vividly remember BJ buying that Mofi Cat Stevens in Las Vegas. I bought the Jimi Hendrix experience box set.  I think BJ sought after record appreciated more after 20 plus years but being Dutch I got lured by the...
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    Afternoons @ The Lunch Box

    Melvin Goldin afaik made his way to Australia. Alon is in the audio game in Israel. 
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    Afternoons @ The Lunch Box

    Retreaded in Montagu. 
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    To mod or not. Marantz CD63 MKII Ken Ishiwata Signature

    Marantz CD63KI Dave Matthews Band: Let You Down 3 versions to log the differences.  Let me know your thoughts.  https://youtu.be/Hf0l-ZEyQQc https://youtu.be/Qw8N7ZHOfqE https://youtu.be/h5PzEKXWOuU
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    To mod or not. Marantz CD63 MKII Ken Ishiwata Signature

    Nahhh. Great player but.  A laser for the 63 can be had for 25 Euro quite easily making it a low risk ?run around?.  Serious digital listening is from files on a hard drive or a usb cd drive plugged in to the Musicbook Source. 
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    To mod or not. Marantz CD63 MKII Ken Ishiwata Signature

    Been there done that and wore out the t shirt.  Had a CD17 that imo beat the 17ki we had in the shop. Just considering a bit of fun to have an affordable maintainable interesting player for the odd time I spin a disc at 1x speed. 
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    KEF B110

    Better to find used and that?s the route I have done once for pair one and doing again for pair two.  There are many fine small loudspeakers.  Driven well there is something about Kann. Maybe it?s the bextrene.  The near wall placement.  The little cone in a sealed ply box.  Dunno.  They are a...
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    KEF B110

    SP1003 is much more common so you are ?in luck?.  Sort of. 
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    KEF B110

    Kan I or II? Sp1003 for the 1 and SP1057 for the Kan II afaik. 1057 has higher power handling. 
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    Opinions on vintage CD players (circa 1989/90, top of the line)

    I will keep saying it.  Implementation over specific chip.  Bitstream. Delta Sigma and old school multibit do sound a bit different from each other in the hands of the same designer with the same budget and goal. However, I still reckon implementation (design, component quality power supply...
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    KEF B110

    Concerto, there was also a kit equivalent of this and old Cresta.  Not the newer model made some time in the last 20 years. 
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    KEF B110

    According to profile Kenneths is in Jhb. 
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    Audiosciencereview.com

    Ayre just like theta used the oppo as a base adding their own electronics to the mix.  A senior at Wadia explained to me before that they bought complete pioneer players and stripped them as it was cheaper to buy a ready QCed player than the comparatively low qty of mechs and logic they needed...
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    KEF B110

    The most eco way you might find would be from an old pair of Kef speakers. 
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    MacBook Pro battery replacement

    Last battery I bought for air came with a pentalobe driver...
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    No more silver discs - how to replace a CD player?

    https://lindemann-audio.de/products/limetree-series/network/?lang=en Small box.  Big box performance. 
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    Vinyl trade group on WhatsApp

    I also find it quite a strange proviso etc.  My experience with vinyl Facebook groups is that folks just keep getting their panties in knots.  Leave and start their own.  Frankly I can?t keep up with them all anymore / duplicate posts and random banter noise etc etc. So I actually no longer read...
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