Thiel Owners

Jafant...

As I've said before I start out low and move up the food chain as finances allow. I'm still with the base Music Link Transparents which are fine as is.  Frankly I don't believe that moving up will yield me any discernible improvements, at least in terms of $$ vs reward.  Not saying I won't but there's a limit to my madness. 

Jeepers, have I finally stopped spending?

Unmm, no!

Never! stop spending -William,

I had to research my notes from my last system circa 2005.

I had all Transparent "super" IC and SP. This would be based upon the MM2
catalog from the same period.

I was very fortunate to have a Transparent dealer/retailer in New Orleans (Audio Resource) at that time.  The owner and myself struck up an instant friendship based on our love of Music and the High End.

He featured a generous in-home trial period on all gear and cabling.
I started out w/ the "Link 100/200" then the "music link". After hearing the "super" in my system, my listening space, it was all over. I saw no need to  move further up the chain.  My old system was Rotel separates, B&W 805N
Sony ES  player. Stock PC on the gear. Richard Gray Power Company
power/line conditioner, as I lived near, a Utility relay station for the city.
The system sounded outstanding after midnight to 6am.

Addendum:
after traveling the last 6 years and being in a position to visit more out-of-state (I have none in my home state) dealers/retailers, there exists a phenomenal difference between the middle tier and top tier for Transparent Cabling.  Specifically, moving up from the "super" into "reference/reference XL" territory is very, very sweet.

And moving further up from "reference" into OPUS...beyond description.

2nd Note;
to date- I have not heard the newest Gen 5 cabling/cords.
All of my listening, auditioning, is based upon the MM2 series and quite frankly, I do not see any reason to move from MM2 to Gen 5.

Happy Listening!

jafant i will be demoing a full CH Precision system this saturday at a local dealer's.
This 2 days show is organized by the distributor.
Speakers will be Wilson Sabrina and Sonus Faber Amati.
First time ever CH demo for me, i'm psyched.