Burmester 218.....

ckr1969,

and you definitely could make improvements by upgrading your cables I looked at the company and all they're using is copper but unfortunately it's not the best copper, The best copper for audio is OCC single crystal which is been proven now for over 50 years to be far superior to OFC which is what the company that you're using uses that's the cheapest wire out there and you're paying through the nose for cheap wire I can't believe when I saw the prices how big of a rip off this company is for using such cheap wire I think you should do your research a little bit better and you'll find out that OCC single crystal silver and copper is far Superior than what you're using now.

@zuesman  I really appreciate the advice, here some for you, you may want to spread your speakers a littler further apart, they will image better, I would also look at replacing your esoteric, excellent brand but aurender/dcs/new esoteric will kick its ass, you may also look at replacing the sim amp/pre with boulder, angostino, ch, solution, gryphon, etc much better amps/pre, you should really do your research before giving others advice, just a thought

ckr1969, did you see the picture of my room I can't spread them out any further unfortunately because the minimum that monitor audio suggests the speakers to be from the sidewall is 3 ft I've already got them a foot and a half away from the sidewall if I push them out farther I'll lose my outside imaging.

ckr1969,

actually I don't think the new esoteric will kick this transports ass in fact this transport may be better than what they're making now when they made this transport they were so far ahead of everybody it wasn't even funny The internal wiring is all OCC single crystal wire which shocked me when I saw the specs I don't know if the new stuff is using OCC single crystal wire internally and the VRDS transport hasn't changed that much since this one It's still the best transport in the world nothing better out there.

ckr1969,

Boulder Griffon CH precision and solution do not make better preamps than this one and the 850P sorry obviously you've never heard the p8 or the 850p It's just as good as any of those in fact the 850p is now $40,000 US.