What gear do Audio manufacturers use at home?


I'm very curious to know what kind of gear do Audio designers use as their personal system.

As an example, does anyone know what Mr Richard Vandersteen, Steve McCormack, Yves Bernard Andre, etc use as their personal system. Builders like Tyler accoustics, JM Labs, Martin Logan don't make CDP or Amps. The same applies for Cardas, Lieder, Siltech, etc... The owners or designers must be using some other brands.

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lgregoir

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I have heard Steve McCormack is using Acoustic Zen cables. Word is that a number of fellows at Audio Research, Art Audio, and Soliloquy are using Acoustic Zen as well.

Pat McGinty of Meadowlark uses DH Labs cables at home and at trade shows, plus internally on many of their speakers; as does Tyler Lashbrook of Tyler Acoustics & Mike Dzurko of Audio Concepts (all speaker manufacturers). Other users of DH Labs include Mike Sander at Quicksilver Audio (Tube amps/preamps, Naum Dorkhman at Audes, Allan Chang at Golden Sound (DH Comes), Wilson Shen at Clayton Audio (amps).

Studio engineers often don't have much of a home system--after listening critically all day long, they are usually a bit burned-out on listening when they get home. Their studio systems are their main listening systems. Some top name studios you will likely find did work on many of your recordings include The Hip Factory in NY, 3D Audio in Nashville, Definative Recordings in Detroit, Sterling Sound in NY, Chicago Audio Works, Arf Digital Mastering. All of these are using DH Labs interconnect and digital cables, particularly in mastering.

Jeff Delman
Value Audio