How good are the Sony 9000es mods.?

While this doesn't bear directly on your question, I had Dan Wright of ModWright do his level 2 standalone and transport mods put in a SuperClock and ByBee filters on my Pioneer 38A (which is in about the same price range) and the improvement was immense. I would say the improvement upgrading from the 525 I had previously to the unmodified Pioneer 38A was about a 10% improvement, while Dan's mods were an 100% improvement. You might want to look for feedback on the ModWright forum at www.HarmonicDiscord.com. He does a lot of work on Sonys.

Greg

Chelillingworth

Which level mod did you get? I was looking at the web site and they show 3 levels plus bybee filters,tubed outputs,satalite navagation(in case you loose the remote).
I owned one breifly,but returned it to pick up the EAD theatervisionP. Of all the DVD players I looked at, the 9000 came in second in that catagory.
Tim

Well I just picked up a new 9000es for $700.00. Time to shop around for the mod. company to do the work.
Tim

Good luck, there are a number of folks out there who are very well thought of and can do a good job!

The mod's DEFINITELY WORK. I have heard Richard Kern (audiomod.com) and Dan Wright (modwright.com) modifified scd-1 units and cannot recommend them enough. Both guys have great reputations.

I just bought a used richard kern modified audiocom scd-1. I still have my original scd-1 and a/b compare them. It's like the difference between a $500 Cd player and a $2000 CD player. I can't believe how much better it is. Much lower noise floor, truer instrument timbres, and the soundstage seems twice as wide. I don't think I've heard a lower noise floor. If I had known the level of improvement I would have had it done long ago.

A few weeks ago Dan Wright brought his Modwright XA777ES (the one from CES) with the tubed output stage to my house and it's unbelievable too. It also sounded much better than my stock scd-1. Had the glorious tube warmth to go with SACD's awesome resolution. It's also a great redbook player - better than the stock SCD-1.

I would guess that having a 9000 would probably be an even more dramatic improvement since it has lower component quality than the scd-1.