Accustic Arts

Hi Pubul57 Thanks for the info. I just sold my ARC3 MK2 the other night when I put it back in my system for the guy to listen to I could not believe the difference.
The "AA" is in a whole different league, well I suppose the ARC was really a good player for it's time.

Teajay it doesn't look like I am going to get that Oracle to demo in my system so today I decided to just order one. I went with the 2000 transport because that is what I'm after, it has the Philips CD PRO 2 laser drive which is suppose to be very good.

Soon I will be getting my VD Genesis speaker cables and Supratek pre amp. and Sistrum Audio stand and amp and speaker stands and should be fun.

I referred the Indra cables to some one I know to try in his system and he said so far that he is not impressed. He said that they sound clinical in comparison to VD Masters and Revelation series. I was shocked to hear this, I suggested that he should contact Stealth with his serial numbers on the cables to confirm that they are the latest version because he bought it used and could be an older version.

He wants to trade so I was very interested but unfortunately they are rca to rca and I run balanced configuration darn it.

I have not heard anyone say this who has used Indra, any thoughts?

Regarding the AA dac, I spoke to some one today, the same guy who has the Oracle 2000 and AA dac MK4 he said that he has double roller blocks underneath the dac and really likes the result, ever tried it?

The Sistrum stands that I have coming will be really interesting. The same guy who is not sure of the Indra cable bought the Sistrum SP-101's and put them under his JM-Lab Nova BE speakers and said that he noticed a large improvement over all and is really impressed.

Dev, there were beta versions of the Indra. I had some. They differred from the production versions only in the connectors. If your friend has the low conductivity Stealth connectors, he has production versions. Indras are no longer available.

I put the AA Dac on the Halcyonics and then the Drive 1. I was totally shocked with the improvement-great dynamics, clean high end, profound bass, and total realism of the soundstage. Wow! I must say that I cannot afford another Halcyonics under my Shindo tt, so vinyl is disadvantaged.

>>Indras are no longer available<<

I just bought 3 pair. Somebody should tell Sergeui.
:-)))

Tbg, which Halcyonic product are you using. How much does it cost?

Pubul57, see http://www.halcyonics.de/en/products/micro.php?navid=14&topId=13 This will at least give you a picture. I cannot really say what the price is as this is in flux. It is in the $8000 area, however. Yes it is very expensive but then again you cannot get its benefits in the sound of your components for any cost. I don't agree with the recent rave review that suggests the Minus K is its equal under turntables.

Last evening I just sat in disbelief of what I was hearing with the Accustic Arts Dac Mk IV and Drive One Mk II. My dCS, EMM, Esoteric, Exemplar, and SONY efforts just are no longer in the ball game.