Nice afternoon yesterday

We have a family friend who owns a marketing firm that distributes audio/video products. He lives in the suburbs of Chicago about 45 minutes away. We went in to pick up a pair of Lsi 9's for my bro's office rig. Now usually we go to the warehouse so I've never seen his absolutely gorgeous home which is wired to the hilt with audio equipment in every concievale place and room in his 7 bedroom 5 bath home. His main system in the AV room is absolutely spectacular and I got to hear some truely first class equipment. Since he reps a lot of different companies he has a stack of equipment in his racks that is truely incredible. He has it set up for HT as is the trend for the business because he has clients over to experience many of the products he reps. But it's set up for 2 channel duty as well. I heard about 6-8 tracks on the following system.

Preamp was a top of the line Lexicon processor (set to 2-ch)
Source was a Denon 3910 universal DVDP
(2)Revel Ultima-Salon Speakers
(2)Velodyne DD-18 subs
(3)Power amps Mark Levinson No. 436--400 watt Mono blocks.The third was for the Revel center channel which was not in use for 2-ch listening.

The speaker cables were thicker than some plumbing I've seen in homes as were the power cables coming out of the Mark Levinson amps.

Diana Krall, Steely Dan and others never sounded so alive. The detail, clarity, room dynamics and total lack of color and was simply amazing. What an incredible sounding system.






Links to reviews for the Levinson's, Revel's and Velodyne's if interested.

http://www.stereophile.com/solidpoweramps/905/

http://www.stereophile.com//loudspeakerreviews/96/

http://www.stereophile.com/subwoofers/604velodyne/

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