First of all, I want to sincerely thank the LAOCAS for the opportunity to present to them. It was a thoroughly enjoyable afternoon. I also had the extreme pleasure of meeting EveAnna Manley of Manley, Steve McCormack and Bruce Edgar of Edgar Horns.
I had met Bruce on prior occasions and had passed Eveanna at shows, but had never had the opportunity to speak with her. She is a truly fun and interesting person and I am glad to see that we have such knowledgeable and enthusiastic women in this business also.
Meeting Steve McCormack was a real pleasure as I feel that ModWright's business thus far has followed a similar path as McCormack's, starting with the Mod Squad company.
The system that was assembled at the show sounded very good I thought, with Manley amps, Kubola Sosna(sp?) cabling, Reference 3A DaCapo(sp?) speakers and our preamp and source. It is always an unknown as to how a system will sound when assembled in an unknown room with hardly a time or opportunity to optimize. Having said that, I believe that most will agree that we enjoyed very good sound and I think that all of the manufacturers should take that as a complement
.
Of interesting note, our preamp was pushing 30 ft. of Sosna's single-ended interconnects, to the Manley Neo Classics with NO PROBLEMS. This says to me that the Sosna cables are truly exceptional and our preamp has good drive capability
(but I already knew that...).
The 'shootout' was brief and educational. As previously mentioned, it was far from perfect and while we tried to level the playing field as much as possible, it wasn't perfect.
It was my intent to simply show that our mods DO make a marked and significant improvement, compared to the stock unit. The fact that this was obvious to all who listened, within a matter of seconds, clearly satisfied me.
Again, thank you to all those who were present and if you weren't there, you missed a good time.
Bob Levi was a very gracious MC and host to those who presented and I want to thank him personally as well for his hospitality.
Take care,
Dan W.