It was great to finally meet you, Gregadd. And thank you for your impressions of the sound. We did the best we could with the partnering gear.
It wasn't my room, and walking into Capital Audiofest, that was the first time I had heard the gear. The amp that we were supposed to use was badly distorted, and so the back-up was a brand new 20W tube amp. You may also have been there after they were demo-ing the processor, and even with the "pass through", it still took the analog turntable through a ADC and a DAC. That's not a pass-through in my book......