Wadia 27ix GNSC inside pics
Wadia 27ix with Great Northern Sound Company Statement Upgrade
The Statement Upgrade comprise a bunch of modifications and subtle tweaks that transform this dac and bring it to a whole new level
This Wadia 27ix has had the Statement Upgrade installed. What this entails precisely is being kept a secret. All that is mentioned by GNSC is that all the weak points have been addressed. Curious as I am, I grabbed my chance to look under the lid of the dac when a friend bought it.
The DAC in standard form is allready full of capacitors but as part of the Statement Upgrade they are now replaced by Black Gates. Also here you see 2 stacks of three capacitors instead of the previous single ones. They are all Rubycon Blackgates and each capacitor is damped with a piece of rubbery substance. Next to these capacitors is the outlet from one of the transformers which now has a capacitor-like component connected in series. It is covered in rubber.
Above: the input board lid as well as the transformer lid removed. Both transformers are now floating between a rubber sandwich instead of being bolted to the bottom. The transformers have a 0,5cm thick separate housing (standard, no upgrade).
Above: a filter-like device (unknown to me) that is connected in parallel across phase and neutral.
Some SMD resistors have been removed and are bridged by solid core wire.
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Good morning, I would like to know if it is possible to modify the WADIA 27 ix that I own so that it is capable of processing 192 signals, given that the maximum currently is 96
If possible, do you do the up-grade?
salvadomenech@icloud.com
Hi Salvador, I don’t perform updates or modifications. That said, I don’t think this DAC’s architecture would support higher sample rates than 96kHz even if you heavily modded it. You’d also have to update the firmware and potentially replace the DAC ICs. To be honest, considering that not even the last classic Wadia 521 even supported sample rates higher than 96kHz, I think you’d be better off either switching to another DAC, or using your playback software to downsample. Roon, for example, does this very well.