My Bushmaster has been upgraded by Stan with the Venom HP mod and has been running in for a week or so. Direct comparisons with the standard BM can't be made, of course, but I'm very pleased with the lovely natural, unforced sound that it is now producing (through headphones). I tend to use as my reference a very fine EMI ripped CD of Leif Ove Andsnes playing Grieg Lyric Pieces - it must have been recorded in a place with a fine acoustic, and now that sense of space and the relationship between left and right hands, has fallen into place. Interestingly, the mod seems to have brought out the best in my elderly Grado SR60 'phones which were previously (and unexpectedly) pipped by some Bose AE2 'phones. Now the pecking order is reversed and I'm going to replace the SR60 cable with some Cardas stuff to help them along further.
I've held back on posting observations on the Venom mod so far because the run-in process has seen the BM sounding sublime one day, then awful the next, then brilliant again. I don't know how long it's going to take to run in completely, but I don't doubt that it will be worth the wait.
Oh, and Stan's service is brilliant.
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Originally Posted by StanleyB
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