Thanks ghosthouse for sharing the type of cables you are using in your system. I found the power conditioner you mentioned. A used one here on Audigon. This cost more then my Emotiva XPR2 - 2 channel 250pc amplifier.
Isotek EVO3 Aquarius | AC Conditioners | Santa Clara, California 95051 | Audiogon
I will continue the search for used and maybe try the other method of trying out for 5% and sending back if I don't hear a difference.
I also found one that cost more than a 4 year old used BMW car!
Synergistic Research Galileo PowerCell SX Limited Edition - BRAND NEW - redesigned and improved version | AC Conditioners | Apple Valley, California 92307 | Audiogon
If you click the link and scroll through the photo's you can see this guy is a serious audiophile.
RE: Lyle Mays' first solo album.
Its in my collection and I like it a lot as well. Mark Johnson plays bass on a few Mays' great recording sessions including my personal favorite the LUDWIGSBURG CONCERT. Described here by JAZZ TIMES.
Whether intentionally or not, Lyle Mays seems to have perpetrated one of jazz’s great disappearing acts. For more than three decades, beginning in the mid-’70s, he was an integral component of the Pat Metheny Group, as keyboardist, composer and arranger; released a handful of well-regarded solo albums; and served as sideman to a number of high-profile artists. But for more than a decade now it’s been radio silence.
Given his below-the-radar status, the emergence of any previously unheard Mays music of significance is a treat. This new set is not newly recorded—it documents a 1993 concert in Germany—but it’s a treasure, described in the liner notes as “THE ONLY LEGAL RECORDING OF MAYS' ACOUSTIC QUARTET,” that being bassist Marc Johnson, saxophonist Bob Sheppard and drummer Mark Walker, with Mays sticking solely to piano. Its nine tracks are spread over two CDs, all of them Mays compositions save for an expansive reworking of “Au Lait,” composed by Metheny and Mays and originally heard on the PMG’s Offramp album.
Capital letters (emphasis) are mine.
