Over the weekend, I spent a decent period of time being introduced to a 'New to Myself system'.
There were a Group in attendance at the residence of the systems owner, and most of the attendees were to experience the system for the first time.
The System consisted of CDP>Hegel HD 30 DAC >Sansui AU-111 Amp' (Fully Overhauled and Tube Rolled)>Klipsch Jubilee Speakers.
In this Guise and after approx' 15 mixed genre Tracks Played, the attendee's were blown away by the produced sound.
The day was also to introduce the system owner to other variations that can be had within the system, resulting in a few changes being made.
In general 4-6 Tracks were played using each configuration.
The first being swapping out of interconnects, three different Brands were brought along, where the cheapest pair were £300 and one pair of the RCA Phono's had a purchase price of approx' £1000.
Again there was enough detected through the short period of demo's for each, to strongly suggest the resident set up benefits substantially with the £1000 Cables included.
A P-P 300b was used in place of the Sansui using the Hegel as a Pre', WOW! the systems owners face was BEAMING with a ear to ear Grin.
A Prototype Korg Nutube Pre-Amp' was added with the Hegel as a DAC only and there was even more to had, another WOW! moment. A noticeable expansion and insight of the produced sound was clearly evident.
The CDP>Hegel was exchanged for a Perfect Wave Audio Memory Player and a Bespoke Built Valve DAC. This really brought something very new and very much wanted to the forefront. There was a run on the requests to repeat replay earlier used tracks, and it was a substantial change to the earlier replays.
The Klipsch Jubilees were doing their job perfectly, the upstream of the Speakers system was Top Drawer in all guises used, this has a lot to do with the qualities associated with the sound being produced.