Thanks for the advice George, but this and several other mods have been done to the Acoustat servo amps,all the better to showcase how good the Lightspeed is.
The Acoustats I have are not stock,they were modded by DTS audio,I power the servo amps with Shunyata Annaconda power cords which are plugged into a Furutech GTX Gold receptacle on a dedicated 20 amp line.
The IEC on the amps were replaced with top of the line Furutechs,and the connectors(3 per amp)are also upgraded rhodium from Furutech, and the RCA on the Acoustats are the upgraded Furutech rhodiums.Interconnects are Nordost Heimdal.I use AMR gold fuses in the amps with the WA fuse chips and transformer chips.
The speed and clarity of this system was great when I was using the Steelhead as a pre/phono.
Using the Lightspeed and bypassing the Manly for cd and using only it's fixed outputs for phono has improved the clarity even more.
Yes, I've lost the mono control on the Steelhead by running fixed output, and I have to switch the IC from the Esoteric to the Steelhead for vinyl, but the sound improvement is well worth the effort.
And for me, that's why I do the things I do.
Did I hear "gear head" stream from the peanut gallery?
Been called worse, but if you really are into the music,you owe it to the music to give it the gear it is deserving of.
What good are 10,000 lp's if you've only heard 25% of the music recorded on them ?
