The Upgrade Company
David J. Schulte, President
1222 Walkabout Lane
Harbor Springs, MI 49740
1+231.242.0946
MrHiEndAudio@aol.com










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"To
Upgrade -or- not to Upgrade, there is no Question"
"Own the very best!"
Stock high-end audio gear still leaves
a lot to be desired.Even ultra high end models simply fail to
come close sonically to the same model which has been upgraded.


Dear David,
My initial impression of my upgraded Marantz SA11S1 is nothing short of Hallelujah! When I got this player I figured it was the best one I'd ever have and it sounded better than anything I'd ever owned before. When I unpacked my Marantz today and played Van Cliburn playing the First Piano Concerto of Tchaikovsky, something happened that was a first for me. I felt the music. I didn't just hear it, I felt it. The vibration of the strings in the piano was palpable to me. Next was Renee Fleming singing Bel Canto arias. I've heard that the test of a player is how it handles female vocals. This is where it gets interesting - I listened to the arias and the hairs on my neck stood up. This has only happened when I heard music live in performance. It has never happened to me listening to a SACD. This is as close to live as I've experienced music. Brahms' Ein Deutches Requiem is on now and here again something amazing. I've sung this piece in concert performance. I've heard it at Carnegie Hall and wept at the beauty of it - I had tears in my eyes today. So, out of the box, without being anywhere near burnt in, I'm thrilled by what I'm hearing.
Thank you, David, for the genius of what you do. Your kindness in working with me on price so that I could afford this "magical" transformation is something for which I am profoundly grateful. May God bless you always.
Father Mike Carroll
   





The Upgrade Company
David J. Schulte, President
1222 Walkabout Lane
Harbor Springs, MI 49740
1+231.242.0946
MrHighEndAudio@aol.com |
100% Money-Back Guarantee
THE UPGRADE COMPANY
High End Audio sales, service, upgrades and modifications. Put our nearly 30 years of experience in selecting, assembling, modifying and upgrading High End audio to work for you. The Upgrade Company maintains a 100% Satisfaction Money Back Guarantee on all modifications and upgrades. Showroom stock high end audio at any price point is simply Dull and Flat.
The Upgrade Company is world renowned and highly regarded for "raising the bar" creating a new standard for the ultimate in sound quality that is simply not heard from "off the showroom floor" makes and models.
100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
THE BUCK STOPS HERE
The Upgrade Company's
cost-is-no-object approach affords BETTER performance then the
latest "Class A rated" models!
We do not give free products or "long term equipment loans" to magazine reviewers to buy reviews in magazines and online-magazines
Our world-wide customers continue to report that based on their independent comparisons using their Upgrade Company Signature Edition upgraded model, it was not possible to obtain the same level of performance out of ANY stock model they A-B compared. Not at any price level.
We realize this sounds like a big fat lie, but it isn't. 100% Money Back Guarantee.
Stock models at the highest price levels have at least 50% more performance to be had.
The Upgrade Company is PURE STATE OF THE ART!!
Why spend
your hard earned money on a new model that'll only be incrementally better when you get it home? You've been wasting your money on very tiny
improvements.
Our real customer
testimonials speak volumes of what we have to offer you. Don't fall for
the big magazine hype "Class A Rated", "Editor's Choice",
etc. Lots of "reviewers" have rooms full of free
gear & cabling from leading manufacturers. Trust your own ears. The
Upgrade Company provides better sound for you then stock factory models.
Manufacturer's are profiteering off consumers all the time.
Former top of the line models, even going back 5 years, once
upgraded by The Upgrade Company, easily surpass present-day Class A
rated models touted in magazines. This is simply because high-end audio
manufacturers still cannot remain profitable using the highest-technology and
highest performing electronic parts throughout their models due to cost,
supply, and time to manufacture constraints. They're getting
cheaper and cheaper all the time inside.
Why continue spending thousands of dollars at the stores for extremely minor
incremental improvements? The Upgrade Company can expertly upgrade your
existing electronics to outperform current top of the line models costing
tens of thousands of dollars more.
Why not have your existing CD player, preamp or amplifier or dac upgraded
instead for a HUGE leap in performance that will satisfy you for decades to come?
There is massive
untapped performance potential in all high-end audio components.
High-end electronic manufacturers, regardless of prestige or
retail cost, use cost-cutting techniques in order to maintain their
profitability in this shrinking high-end audio/video marketplace. Top of the
line models costing upwards of $10,000 still contain many of the same
capacitors that cheap tabletop radio's use. It is sad but increasingly
true. You'd be shocked
to learn that many top of the line supposedly
cost-is-no-object preamplifiers contain 10 cent
surface mount power supply capacitors. The finest power supply
capacitors available today for example are too expensive for manufacturers
to profit from. This kills their performance.
Brand new
models at the highest price levels are full of cheap parts!
The Upgrade Company's
"house sound" has been time-tested and judged by over
one thousand high-end audio consumers to be "State of the
Art". We simply provide the type of sound listeners
prefer over stock top of the line models. Our clients become satisfied
and happy with the sound we provide them. Don't fall for the hype you
read in magazines. You're wasting your money on the latest models,
they're all under performers and built to a price point
One cannot
achieve "State of the Art" performance from the latest models which
are built to a price point to profit from consumers !
The Upgrade Company has pioneered several advances that are
"Trade Secret". Our upgrades are not just "parts
swapping". Each upgrade is the result of advanced research,
testing and science. Every Signature Edition upgrade we
perform. No "modifier" who cuts, hacks and glues approaches the
results The Upgrade Company provides. There is no need to re-engineer any
model. Outfits that attempt to "re-engineer the
unit" through leaving off parts, gluing
in "clock" boards and cutting of circuit traces to
install vacuum tubes have a history for reliability and substandard
results.
The Signature Edition upgrade impresses immediately: Excellent
pace, rhythm and timing, superb fine detail, lots of presence, impressive
dynamics, extended tight bass with spot-on weight and
"slam", extended finely detailed highs and gorgeous mids.
Nothing "Hi-Fi" or "Digital" about the sound at all, simply
gorgeous unexaggerated naturalness: the music itself.
Our customers have commented after the break-in period has been completed:
"the sound is now very lucid and incisive, without being thrust forward at
you", "music sounds sharp & focused, yet at the same time
wonderfully refined and relaxed, with excellent weight and air."
"Very fluid." "I finally sold all my LP's!"
The Signature Edition upgrade utilizes the very latest and highest quality
electronic parts from around the world which are constantly being updated
and decided upon after countless hours of A-B comparisons to dramatically
push performance higher then previously possible.
Each model receives special attention. All parts
are expertly chosen from direct A-B comparisons to truly bring the
unit up to State of the Art performance. Each part is measured and
matched, for each specific model being upgraded. Typically over 150 parts
are installed.
Each circuit board is thoroughly cleaned and triple checked before it is
re-installed. Each model is carefully reassembled and fully tested to spec
and burned in for 24 hours or more before it is returned to the customer. Typically our turn-around time is 1-2
weeks. Each upgrade comes with our 1 year fully-transferable parts and labor
warranty and our 7 Day In-Home Trial 100% Money Back Guarantee.
The Upgrade Company auditions
& tests the latest new top of the line models and performs
double-blind multiple participant A-B test sessions to be sure that our
claims of "State of the Art" are up to date.
Please take this opportunity to discover what a TRUE State of
the Art source component sounds like in your system, complete with a 7
Day In-Home Money Back Guarantee and 1 year parts and labor
transferable warrantee. A 3 year extended parts and labor
warranty is available.
Sincerely,
David Schulte
The Upgrade Company LLC
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*UPDATED! Jan. 2, 2008
Initial impressions on my upgraded Marantz SA11s1 Upgrade
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$21,000
EMM LABS CDSD SE & DCC2 SE sold in favor of upgraded Denon
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