http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=109703.msg1465435#msg1465435
not sure of the point of that... i consider both guysonic and doug to both be reputable in understanding and undertaking mods...and both have been huge contributors to the community. If doug is/was outsourcing board-level soldering good for him. dudes neck and back were wrecked decades ago and he was ordered by his doctor to chill on the benchwork.
He knows his way around a design and can understand whats going on and how to effectively unleash some bottlenecks necessitated by designers of mass-produced gear. Many of his mods disable other features of the design as a compromise, that the mfr probably thought useful to their design (but irrelevant to our purpose) - internal mics on pmd661 comes to mind.
That said, i think the greatest thing i ever learned from doug is "trust your ears". Which is why i take ANY mod (or ANY flavor-of-the-month gear for that matter) with a grain of salt until i get my hands on a real honest comp and can decide for myself. Sure a mod M10 may "crush" stock A10 and M10 on noise floor, but is that necessary for me to go stack tape a PA in a noisy crowd? up to the buyer to decide...
There are a few people over the years, like doug (and his brother jim), john siau, mike grace, jon from naiant, etc, that have taught me so much and answered question after question and provided guidance, not because they were necessarily business driven, but because they share a deep passion for their art. these are the people i like to support. Plenty of others that are in it for the money, and only the money, whos design and customer service (lack of) integrity inevitably shows itself at some point