MODDED CYRUS XT SE+ TRANSPORT with DAC X+

Besides being a 2009 Best In Class winner, What HiFi says, “It’s good enough to worry machines at triple the price... It sounds staggeringly fast, with amazing definition to the beginnings and ends of notes...This ability is true throughout the frequency range, but is especially impressive in the bass, where this player uncovers layers of low-frequency textures...You can add exquisitely precise stereo imaging and a stable presentation to the list of plus points, too. Five Stars.” If you want to take on the $20,000+ exotic CD players—the Linn Klimak, the DCS Puccini, the EMM XDS1, etc.—without pillaging your bank account, Cyrus’ flagship CD transport and DAC separates are the best starting point we know.

There are major noise and vibration advantages in separating transport and DAC into two isolated chassis—and Cyrus has taken advantage of having a separate chassis for each to refine their transport and DAC designs well beyond the high bar set by their single chassis CD8.

Mapleshade’s mod program for the Cyrus Transport+DAC combo is, in essence, our CD8 mod package applied twice, once for each chassis—with one crucial addition: our world-class Clearview Double Helix Plus Digital Interconnect. Because properly designed digital interconnects make much larger sonic differences than choices of DAC, our Cyrus transport/DAC mod is even more effective than our CD 8 upgrade. That, in turn, makes it easy for us to guarantee that the modded Cyrus transport/DAC will be fully satisfying, head to head against any player in the $20,000 class.