Toshiba SD-4960 & Samsung HD-841 Modifications & Fully Modified Brand New Units: Reference Audio Mods


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Toshiba SD-4960 & Samsung HD-841 Modifications & Fully Modified Brand New Units

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Brand New Fully modified Toshiba SD-4960 player
($575 W/Shipping Included)
1-2 week lead time

Brand New Fully modified Samsung HD-841 player
($575 W/Shipping Included)
1-2 week lead time

Full modifications to your existing Toshiba SD-4960 or Samsung HD-841 (please contact and send in) ($450 Installed W/Free Return Shipping)

Audiocom Superclock 4-S Low Jitter Reference Clock upgrade
($295 FREE INSTALL)
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED FOR BEST SOUND!

Set of WBT NextGen Copper RCA Connectors ($60 Installed)

Set of WBT NextGen Silver RCA Connectors ($100 Installed)

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These Modifications are done on a custom basis and all sales ae final. We will warranty any defective aftermarket parts for failures up to 1 year from date of purchase.

Installation & Questions

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Kyle Takenaga RAM (Riverside, California) referenceaudiomods@yahoo.com phone (951)780-2869

Toshiba SD-4960 and Samsung HD-841 players (Our Impressions)-
Reference Audio Mods performs High Performance modifications to the ever popular Toshiba SD-4960 and Samsung HD-841 units to take them to a completely different level of sound, embarassing many $600-$5000+ costing players!!! Order this unit with the Superclock 4-S option and watch this little unit smoke players costing over $4000 no problem!! We beat a Sony SCD-XA9000ES and a Shaning SCD-T200A (both costing $3000) with this unit! Save $1000's+ dollars today! This is a complete no brainer, its now time to get into much higher end sound on a beer budget. I never thought this was possible and the only way to get great sound is too spend thousands of dollars. Not anymore, Once you hear these units, you will think twice about getting into a fancy cd player.... The fully modified unit was equal or as good as the $11,000 Linn Unidisc 1.1!!! Amazing!

Talk about a sleeper! These unitd retail for $129-179. The unit stock sounds as good as any $300-600 I've heard. With these mods, this unit is taken to a very FAR level, embarassing so many other players on the market, it is a complete NO BRAINER and everyone should have one either in their system or as an backup for their main big rig!!! It is comparable to many $1.5-3K costing players or better when modded with the basic mods! Get the fully modded machine with the Superclock 3 option and you will hear more music than out of the $11,000 Linn Unidisc 1.1!!!

This unit plays SACD, DVD-A's, DVD-V's, CD's, CD-R's, CD-RW's, MP3's, JPEG's. The nice thing is the mods have a good affect on video as well as we focus on the power supply of the unit in our mod package. The end result is sound of a much much more costly and also modified unit. Please take a look at the options as well. Now its time to get that expensive sound for a complete fraction of the cost!
I have compared it to NAD C542, NAD S-500, Cary 308, Arcam FMJ 23, rega jupiter, etc.. and has topped all these in overall resolution/dynamics and clean soundstage! Order one with the Superclock 4-S and start SMOKING $3000-5000 players all day long. It might even be better than some other $3-5k modified players from other companys. If fact, not even the acclaimed Mark Levinson 390S has such a large and refined soundstage with crystal clear resolution and imaging. Hearing is beleiving!

Don't own a Toshiba SD-4960 or Samsung HD-841, but want to own one modifed?? Buy our complete package with player included and save the hassles of buying and the shipping charge to us! (We only warranty our own work that we do on the unit) FREE RETURN SHIPPING! Lower 48 USA States.

The Performance of these mods is much greater than the posted modifications on Audio Asylum or Audio Circle by a complete long shot.

The Mod package
$450 You send in your 4960/HD841 player to RAM East, FREE RETURN SHIPPING! USA Only
$575 We provide Fully modified 4960 or HD-841 (about 1-2 week lead time) FREE RETURN SHIPPING! USA Only

Rubycon ZL/ZA capacitors-
We replace an abundance of voltage rail decouple/bypass capacitors in all critical areas with Rubycon ZL/ZA series caps! Very Very Nice improvement! A HUGE change in total sonic tonality and character, the stock caps are very bad! The Rubycon ZA/ZL sound superior to even the very best Blackgates (offering more speed, openness and vividness in the soundstage) and offer more ripple current and less impedance which makes them optimal in this use.

Custom RAM Exotic Ultra High Speed Diode Bridge-
We replace the stock noisy/glary/grainy rectifiers with a handmade RAM Exotic version made out of ultra fast SMD diodes. These are superior sounding to the Harris versions and offer Less glare, grain and harshness! Nice sound! Better Video as well! These are wired into the circuit with Audio Consulting Silver Wire. Very little metal is used, this helps out the eddu current issues and give better resolution and bass.

Exotic Jensen 4-pole Electrolytic cap in power supply-
We install an Exotic Jensen 4-pole Electrolytic capacitor in the power supply to replace the stock smoothing cap. This cap has an unique ability of reducing power supply distortion while at the same time remaining very fast and natural. Such a clear and audible improvement delivering more resolution, texture, dynamics, and liveliness. We wire this with Exotic Audio Consulting 24awg silver wire w/natural unbleached cotton tubing. The cap betters the best blackgates and any other cap on the market used in this particular position in the mod. This cap costs more than half the cost of the acutal stock player!!!! This even makes video looks better as well!

Analog Output Stage/High Speed Buffer Mods-
We delete the stock Analog Output stage (all caps, analog filtering, etc) in favor for our own version using Rubycon Capacitors, and High Speed Signal buffers. The new buffer circuit gives the units more drive and dynmaics, with better control and authority. The presence factor is also increased with this extra boost in sound. We do not heat any discernable issues with using these buffers and offer the most transparent sound (with no sound of their own). Incredible results! The R&L audio stock jacks get disconnected and replace with high quality verisons mentioned below.

High Quality Vampire Gold Plated RCA Jacks-
We add a set of High Quality Vampire RCA jacks to the rear of the unit for the 4960/HD841 to increase the signal integrity to your RCA cables. The stock cheap versions are made out of cheap stamped metal and plastic and is not good for quality signal transfer.

EXTRA PERFORMANCE OPTIONS FOR EVEN BETTER SOUND!!

Audiocom Superclock 4-S Reference Clock Upgrade ($295 Free Install!!)-
HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! THIS WILL TAKE THE UNIT FAR BEYOND $3000 PLAYERS!
We add a reference quality jitter reduction circuit called a Superclock 3 , this a major improvement in overall sound! This is like adding Nitrous to a car, huge improvement!! This replaces the master clock and offers much lower jitter rate than the stock cmos type oscillator. Expanded soundstages and accurate instrument definitions for example are the many outcomes of this major mod component. Breathtaking performance is now possible!! Please give the unit well over 300 hours to break-in with this clock. Bonus! WE ARE NOW INCLUDING A PROPRIETARY C37 TWEAK TO THE CLOCK BOARD AND WE MAKE A VERY SPECIAL SILVER WIRE CABLE FOR CLOCK CONNECTION. THE RESULTS ARE AMAZING!

WBT NextGen Female Copper RCA Connectors ($60 Installed)-
Instead of using the Vampires in the mod package, we can use the WBT NextGen Copper connectors for $60 installed. This takes the sound even further.

WBT NextGen Female Silver RCA Connectors ($100 Installed)-
Instead of using the Vampires in the mod package, we can use the WBT NextGen Silvers connectors for $100 installed. This takes the sound even further than the copper WBT's and the vampires. These connectors are the closest to "no connector at all" from our listening test, going back and forth, we were stunned. These are the very best RCA connectors we use in our projects.

Customer Reviews

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Reviewer: Lanny
Date:March 12, 2005

Well,
The shoot-out between my fully modded RAM Toshiba SD-4960 and audio_girls Linn Unidisc went extremely well! Audio_girl ain't too happy right now! The sound of the RAM Toshiba was absolutely unbelievable in her system! I was blown away and so was she! The RAM Toshiba gave up NOTHING, audiowise, to the Linn! The only area where the Linn might have been SLIGHTLY superior was in bass power and extension, but that was inconclusive. On some CD's they sounded equal, and on others the Linn MAY have been better? Mids, highs, and imaging were about dead-even! Now, the Linn did have quite a bit better video than the Toshiba. Main problem with the Toshiba was that the blacks were a little too light and the picture wasn't quite as clean or pristine as the Linn. I am a very happy camper right now, and my unit is not near being fully broken in. Just thought I would share this with you all. Lanny