Todd: Thanks again for your compliments!
Everybody: I had a great time with Todd tweaking his room and gear and dialing in his system. Todd is a great guy (and big guy in the financial world; I was picking his brain the whole time about the market, sales, business models, etc!!!)
His room is sounding sooooo much better than the last time I had visited. Many new tweaks--especially the MapleShade speaker stands he recently purcashed-- made an astonishing difference. (The Eighth Nerve products of course helped imeasurably too.
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I can honestly say that the room is sounding like a 100k system now and Todd has spent a LOT less than that on equipment and tweaks! As Todd mentioned, we put up a few more Seams and switched around some Echos to eliminate sound holes in the soundstage and clean up the imaging, etc.
Also, we spent a lot of time listening and making changes with the sound processor and DAC. I must say that I am really really impressed with the modded DIO--Great work Wayne! We did quite a few comparisons (I won't bore you with the details here) and I was won over by the DIO. I hope I can get my hands on that audition pack because I need to upgrade my front-end and its going to either be one of Wayne's modded DIO or a new Ayre CD player.
As Todd mentioned, we were both amazed at how MUCH better the Nerve Ending and Replacement feet sounded than both Vibrapods and Ceramic Pods.
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Not even close!
I now feel even better than ever about the value that our feet/ending provide. Makes me realize: With all the stresses of running a business, its well worth it when you have the reward of meeting and helping great people like Todd with their systems.
Cheers,
Bill