MODDED CYRUS CD 8SE

Lesser known in the US but enormously respected in the UK for rock-solid engineering and superb customer support since 1980, Cyrus pioneered high end CD players as early as 1984 and has been refining them ever since. We had no idea just how brilliantly their players have evolved until a customer asked me to go all out in modding their top rated,$2300 CD 8 SE. The stock CD8 proved to be very impressive indeed,both in sound and in design: fully balanced DACs; massive twin toroid transformers feeding 11 separately regulated power supplies; 192k upsampling; proprietary ultra-low jitter CD drive; proprietary digital data processing algorithms; and an intricately cast, admirably resonance-free magnesium chassis. What HiFi describes the sum of these parts: “Punchy, balanced and impeccably poised, it seems to have a hardwired connection to the emotional centre of recordings – allied to its effortless musicality, forensic detail retrieval and masterful control of timing, it makes for an endlessly absorbing player that can rob you of your time in the most gripping way. Five Stars.”

Good as it is out of the box, our relatively inexpensive mod package elevates the CD8 even further, adding breathtaking harmonic detail, a new world of subtle microdynamics, and knock-you-down punch in the bass. Our mods include:

• Replacement maple chassis bottom plate with Megamount-Triplepoint mounting array

• Clearview Mk 2 AC Power Cord with Plus

• Power supply capacitor upgrades

• Internal wiring upgrades

• Transformer vibration control mounts

• CD drive vibration control upgrades

And, the Modded CD 8SE comes with a money back guarantee that it will outdo CD players costing up to $7500.