my first jm labs listen was to the grande utopias powered by krell's monster 600 watt amps and krell's kps 25 cd player. wired with transparent reference. sounded great. i've since heard the utopias and mezzo's powered by both krell and cj gear, also wired through transparent reference and a combo of transparent reference speaker cable and transparent super and ultra interconnects. sounded pretty good. fast--i think the transparent is quite capable of conveying the detail that krell is famous for revealing.