#Signal path magnovox mods

I must give you credit in your very well articulated reply. If a 'plastic' violin can be made to sound better than a Strad, even when one doesn't have any real instrument-making skills, why not? Like an instrument maker shaping a specific piece of wood, the Mag is only raw material to be shaped into a fine sounding instrument. If you don't intend on taking apart any of your components to tune them, then you get what you get, but from what I gather from Michael's extensive experience, he's suggesting that you get the 'most' tune-able player possible in the Magnavox. As I currently do not have the circumstances that will allow me to do so (living in a rental suite with a growing family), I can only do whatever I can do easily (as mention in my post on Tuneland) that will improve the sound of the system (you can see my post about my system on Tuneland as well) I already have.

#Signal path magnovox mods

I'd get the $29 'plastic' player and do all the mods, especially when it can be easily demonstrated that even a modest budget spent on this player and mods can hugely outperform a single component of equal value. If you've ever been at a live music event where the acoustics of the venue rendered the music pale and lifeless, then it doesn't matter how great a voice or instrument you have, there will be no 'music'!Īs someone who's been around live music most of my life, I get what Michael does. singing or playing an instrument, and especially if you are an instrument maker, or even if you listen to a lot of 'live' music, you may understand that Michael's method makes total sense. If you're involved with making music, eg. If you were offered a deal to buy this $125 violin with a DIY instruction booklet and a kit of modding materials for way, way, way less than a Strad, would you buy it? If money were no object, then owning a Strad would be nice, but most violinists would probably go for the modded cheap instrument, especially if it can be demonstrated to sound much better than the Strad. The way I understand what Michael does is he's like an instrument maker who can modify a $125 Made-in-the-Orient violin and make it sound way, way better than a Strad.