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.
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
