MUSEATEX CDD

Thanks Sheldon,

It's great to hear that he is now doing the reclocking upgrade again. When I last emailed him a year or so ago, that wasn't an option anymore because he couldn't get the parts for the "C-Clock" upgrade. Mine is the older version without this.

I'm definitely going to look into this. Supposedly, the Bidat/iDat/Bitsream to CD-D connection witht the C-Clock option provides some of the lowest jitter numbers ever achieved in commercial audio. Numbers still extremely low by even today's standards.

Hello,

For what its worth I bought a fully decked out CDD John himself had been using for a year or two. It had a recently replaced CD mechanism (one of the very last he kept privately) and John told me he would just add stuff to the transport over the months. I can't compare a modded CDD vs non...but I can tell you I'm very happy with my digital.

I would also recommend a MJ digital coxial, I happen to also use one of Moray's PC's on my Bitstream (heavily modded) DAC as well. Although I actually prefer my Blue Circle PC. The most stunning tweak I've run into so far is a Skylan isolation system which is little more then two slabs of wood with some voodoo magic substance in the middle and some ceramic feet. I say voodoo half kiddingly cuz I'll be damned it actually worked. I didn't think it worked when i bought it because I had the system setup wrong; I had the transport resting on the feet and then the feet on the platter, it was only a year later somebody looked at my system who also had a skylan stand and said "you might actually hear results if you set it up properly" I was pretty suprised when I did the switch; it somewhat renewed my faith in this tweaking nonsense.

If you don't use isolation it's fairly cheap if memory serves it was like $200-300, its an operation out of Calgary (John's home town). If you're into Jazz a Bitstream DAC might be all that you will ever need. It's about as analog as I've ever heard.

The Bitstream is analog supreme, I'd like to see them manufactured again, they had it right.

My Museatex Melior finally gave up the ghost last year. I'd love to have John Wrigh mod it, but there are no replacment transport mechanisms. It was a fantastic transport. I'm now using a refurbished CEC TL5100 and it's pretty close if not equal. If you EVER see a BiDAT with a digital volume control for sale, buy it and have John mod it. When run directly into a high quality amp, it will be the best redbook DAC you have ever heard for under $10K.

So based on the above, i should keep my modded bitstream-LOL. Ive been hearing some stridency so thought id switch out dacs. For some reason the bitstream has been the a constant in my system for a long time...