What About Mods Made To Existing Gear
I wanted to get a bit of discussion on this to see how you all felt. I'm talking about these places on the internet or perhaps even locally that do mods on hi fi gear. A member was telling me about a local place that does mods on Conrad Johnson, one of the most familiar or most modded pieces I've heard of is the Jolida tube CD player. On the Jolida piece I have to wonder after putting all that after market money into it would you have just been better off buying a better player in the first place. Do these mods offer any real value, modding vs just buying the next step up? Do you think some tinker could actually improve on what a manufacturer's engineer has already done? I guess that may be easy by just adding better parts in certain areas but beyond that? For instance, this place that does the CJ will put in some type of extra tube circuitry for enhancement and rerouting. Isn't the big selling point in a tube amp "direct point to point wiring"? I've seen places advertising hot rodding Denon and Sony CD players and I'm sure you all have seen various other pieces that can be modded. I guess maybe the real answer may not be reached unless we could do some type of listening comparison between a modded unit and a similar factory piece at the same price as the unit after mods. Any way, thoughts, experiences?