Hello all - it was quite a trip with driving nearly 3000 miles and Thiel Renaissance business in PA, Lexington, Charlottesville, Bluemont VA and the storm of a lifetime in Northern MA after dark yesterday. Three days with Max near Charlottesville were to tune our mutually designed and constructed room and to demonstrate my new tech to Max. The prongs of the work interact, and we got enough accomplished with the room to move ahead with the SCS4 demo.
I haven't been exposed to the level of equipment I heard here. The last Pass amp I heard was the Aleph 0 in the mid 90s when Nelson used our CS3.6 as his design load. These XA200.5s are a huge leap forward (at $38K/ pair new). I am also unfamiliar with Max's cables - perhaps you can tell us about them. I took my reference Benchmark stack and Morrow cable. We used the BM HPA3 after Max's tube preamp going down. But what we heard was glorious. We can answer questions about the room and perhaps Max might publish some photos. It is special.
Because the SCS4 is way down the performance chain from Max's CS5i pair, it was a challenge to set the stage for demonstrating my tech with them. But, piece by piece the picture came into focus and both our eyes and ears were really opened when we heard the upgraded SCS4s driven by the Pass 200.5s.
What we do for the Love of Music!