Melbguy1, I have known the guy I am talking about for years, we used to best friends in the late 90s untill he tried to take my krell amp that I had then when I let him borrow it for an audition!, it was an krell FPB 200, He has always had a wonderfull system, however, for the life of him, he seemed to have anamosity toward me for haveing a better sounding system than he did for a whole lot less money!, of course I had tara labs cables then too,as always, he stuck more money in his componets and speakers, while I stuck money in cables and profound resonance control I invented!, that could be the posisbility as to why he does not want me to listen to his system?, some things never change, right now he has the Rega Osirus intergrated amp that retails for around $10,000.00, speaker cables, interconnects, and power cords are the shunata research z-tron anacondas, the best from shunata research with the shunata cable lifts off the floor, also he has a awsome looking two componet oppo 95 modded by modright with tubes in the out board power supply and the spinner as well, and a turn-table that I cannot remember what it is, and the magico Q-3 speakers, cheers.