Underwood Mod to Denon 5900

Thanks for the report Tom, and for explaining some of the significant differences betweeen the 2900 and 5900. I did some more research and found that the Modwright 2900 Universal Truth mod has its power supply on-board.

I think it might be helpful for others to know that Slipstream Bybees can be utilized via Bybee RCA Magic Bullets placed on the outputs of a CD player (or any other RCA output or input). I mention this only because I've tried the Magic Bullets, and find they are beneficial in some cases, and not beneficial in others...often related to which interconnects are being used. The RCA Magic Bullets provide a non-permanent method of using Bybee filters in contrast with the permanent, soldered-in Bybee Sliptreams.

At one point, the power supply for the 5900 was going to be enclosed in the chassis also, so you may want to check with Dan to be sure about the 2900. I thought I recalled him telling me that it was also external, now.

Good point about the Bybee Magic Bullets. I was not aware of them.

The 2900 is internal, the 5900 is exrenal, and I am driving myself NUTZ, I have the Exemplar(non siltech) at my home, I left my APL SACD 1000 in trade for a week, and I am also talking with Dan about doing mods on my stock 2900(which sucks)...this audiophile stuff drives me crazy.....Glad to hear you like your 5900, cause if I have Dan mod a unit for me, I just learned, from you that it plays HDCD also, and I would like all formats.

Best

steve

What do you think about the exemplar?

I have to tell you folks, my Underwood modded 5900 is really starting to sound incredible! I still am trying to get my head around just how to use every feature of the 5900, but in two-channel, I am very impressed with the detail, the presence, and the enhanced reality of the sonic images I am hearing. Dan's tubed output stage sounds like something special to me, although it is the first tubed-output digital source that I have used.