cool discussion! I have no personal experience with the modded 70D except listening to Noah's/Voltronic's modded units, and like they said, the difference is very subtle at best to me, BUT I have never heard a direct COMP between a modded and unmodded 70d! Noah and I ran on the same stand@PH MPP last year[I ran mk4>pfa>70d + mk41>VMS02IB>70d and he ran mk41v>pfa>busman modded 70d + mk22>pfa>70d], so not really a direct comp! If anyone wants links to my PH/MPP Night 2 from 2015, just LMK! I have the show on my Google Drive acct already
That said Carlos, I think you should get your 70d and try it stock first, before doing the mod. But that's just my opinion
I have run mk4>pfa>70d preamps numerous times, and I think that the 70d preamps are quite adequate for use with low-noise condenser mics like my Schoeps and many other brands, as long as you aren't using the High/High+ gain on the 70d like Voltronic said. I have only used LOW or MID for field recording[LOW being enough gain for me 90% of the time] with my Schoeps caps, with great success
However, I would really like to hear a DIRECT COMP between the modded 70d vs. a stock 70d unit, because in the end I want to get all that I can out of my 70d's, and if that means changing some opamps/caps, then I'm all for it
Especially since I only paid $300 total for BOTH of my 70d's
So If its a cheap way to improve the 70d even further and extend the HF range a bit, then like I said, I'm ALL for it
I just don't want the HF's to be grating and fatiguing or the lowend affected AFTER the opamp/Cap mod, when it could've been avoided by leaving the 70d stock, that's all
I guess someone just needs to do a correct COMP so we can hear for ourselves if getting the mod is "worth it" or not?
Noah, you still have seeders on any of your PH sources up on etree with your Busman modded 70d
I can provide my mk4>pfa>70d source if you can provide your mkxx>pfa>Busman modded 70d sources for Phish/MPP Night 2[8.16.2015]