View Single Post
  #1  
Old 05-31-2016, 02:34 AM
TOGA TOGA is offline
Guest
 
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: N13E100
Posts: 2,524
Default A heavily modified Ref40

Yesterday somewhere in Bangkok, I saw A Ref 40 in one shop. I went in to look at it.
It happened to be a very heavily modified unit.
All caps in power supply unit became black Mundorf. All DC cables were Tellurium Q cables, also umbilical cord.
The preamp unit seems to have all new cables inside too, but awaiting for more parts to be installed.

Most of the caps inside are black. The big four white caps remains. The workmanship was great.
DC cables were actually better tidy up than factory job.

Unfortunately I forgot to take photo.

With all those wonderful caps and great workmanship. I really doubt how it will sound like with such mod.
I afraid the sound that ARC have crafted carefully will be totally gone.

Oh I asked, total cost of this operations was about $5,500
But I afraid that after such mod, it will be hard to sell later.

Toga
Reply With Quote