Reviews of $10k plus ics, speaker wires, and pcs

Bo1972, I must say that your quest is impressive, but I doubt if anyone has information about the right combinations to achieve the best sound. There are just too many combinations. No one has heard all the different cables that are available, nor all the different speakers, amps, etc. No one has heard all the permutations of these choices, much less know all the taste differences among audiophiles, much less how bad or good their listening rooms are.

Yours is a good sales pitch but hardly convincing. It is much better to have friends who have sought good sound and follow some of their suggestions to see if they help you.

When I visit a client I know in a few seconds with my own music what is missing and what is there.

I can listen to all different parts which needs to be there for what I call Total Sound in a few seconds.

Here on Audiogon it are words. As I said many times; I am a lot better in sound than in words. I only make remarks when I am 100% sure that it is as I wrote it.

As a perfectionist it needs to be exactly as what I said. Because there is no room for error.

The biggest difference is that my focus is Always on the endresult. To all those who buy just one tool from me I want to know the sound they have at home. I try to visit as may clients as possible.

I did hear a lot, but you never can hear everything. But what I do in these situations is that I try to make myself known with the properties of the different tools.

Audio for me it about properties. Because this gives by far the best endresults.

When you create all the parts for Total sound you get a addictive overwhole sound. That is what I do. I can send clients to all other shops because it is Always less convincing and often less complete.

Many clients ask how come that my sound is so much more entertaining and addictive to listen at?

It is very easy to answer; It is more complete. Because the parts I put into a system all have a positive influence on our emotion. That is why I let people listen between 2 and 3 dimensional sound. This difference is huge. That is why I send clients to other shops all the time. In above 90% they sell 2 dimensional sound.

They make it easy to compete. It is a lot more than only the 3 dimensional sound. All the other parts are also important. Because you listen to all parts togheter including the acoustics.

When you have my knowledge and insight you can adapt a lot quicker than other people can. This gets you to a higher endresult all the time.

When I am at a show within 10 seconds with my own music I can describe exactley what is missing regarding to all parts for Total sound.

This is what I do, I explain what is missing. Also to my clients. After this I put in those properties which are missing. For me it is that easy!

When I visit a client I know in a few seconds with my own music what is missing and what is there.

When you visit me, you would NEVER know with YOUR own music what is missing and what is there.
Only I know with MY OWN music what's there or what's not.

Bol1972,
Still can't let go of that "overwhole" thing?

I often talk about a realistic proportion of instruments and voices, or intimate sound. I give you an example; The new Pass Labs poweramps .8 series are according to the people of Pass Labs giving a better sense of space and depth are greater, the layer of instruments and placement is much better and locked in space. Vocals have more body and substance. And, the bass goes deeper and is tighter.

They paid attention to achieve a more physical image as well. This also can be achieved with cables. When you listen to a system with a stunning black level and physical intimate image you know in a few seconds that it is different and that it comes closer to you.

This is a very important part to create more emotion during listening. The same thing can be said about how much information you hear from your system. When it goes deeper you wil feel the difference in what it does to your emotion. When I put of my subwoofer, people are stunned about the difference in emotion. You go back to a lower level of exitement and pleasure.

When you have a wide and deep stage and instruments become all physical apparent it does a lot to your emotion.

The overall sound are all the parts togheter. It is quite easy to explain what is missing. I invite a lot of people at my home. This makes it very easy to explain.

Many of my clients have the same kind of 3 dimensional physical image. At the end you Always can hear my sound back. Because I work exactly the same way all the time.

It is easy to hear how deep and wide a stage is. You can hear how deep a system goes in the low frew. And you can hear how good the level in blacks are. Instruments and voices can become what I call round. They go from 2 dimensional to 3 dimensional. Often voices and instruments are rather flatt. You also can hear how much resolution and decay there is a set. Same about the flavors in the mid freq. Control and timing are also not difficult to Judge.

When you do this for a long period of time and have done it over and over again you hear and understand patterns.

When I talk about a convincing sound I mean that every single person understands quite easy what it makes nice and addictive to listen at. I know this because I like to ask people with totally no knowlegde in audio what they think.

This information is very important. I Always want women to listen to it as well. Wenn they come along with there partner. In general women have a better developed hearing. So I use it. In the past I Always had about 300 cd's with me. I asked them what they would like to listen.