Had a fun audiophile weekend. Saturday morning I went to a town 1 hour from Milan, to meet a gentleman who is the on the forum as Pepe1. Pietro is not very active on the forum, but has been an active audiophile for the past 50 years.
For example, he once owned an Apogee full range with 2 Krells for the bass, a 4-box Jadis JA 500 for the mids, and a 4-box Jadis Ja 200 for the top, with Levinson crossovers.
Since then, his system has changed, and he has set up the prefect system - which is multiple system each with a different presentation suited to different types of music.
His 5th system is Vivid Giya G1 with Halcro, which I was unable to get a listen to as it's on his lakehouse.
His top system, which he has set up more for Jazz and small ensemble classical, is a GPA Monaco 1.0 with Graham Phantom II and Zyx Diamond G, FMA 122 phono, going into Yamamura electronics and cables with Yamamura horns
There are better pics here
http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?13477-My-systems-1&p=245259&viewfull=1#post245259
His second system more for rock and big symphony, is comprised of the Goldmund Apologue driven by 25w Kondo Gakuon 845s and Versa dynamics TT with a Kondo cart. The TT is amazing...tap it while it's playing and no jumps, such is the suspension.
oops that's a really bad pic
I also loved the turntable in his lounge, which was a custom Italian speaker driven by the Goldmund amps, Shindo pre with phono, and a Thorens acrylic TT with Da Vinci Grand Grandezza Reference, and top of the line Jan Allaerts cart. Great TT.
I also learned a lot from chatting with Pietro...he believes in having a TT that is well suspended and spins correct, and spends more on the arm and the cart. The Thorens, for example, is not expensive compared to the arm and the cart on it.
He also had a TEAC tape player on the Goldmund system, and we managed to briefly listen to Solti's Valkyrie.
My demo tracks on digital are usually Bach cantatas (which include chorals and baritone + soprano), Mussorgsky Pictures, Scheherazade, Mahler 2 (Channel Classics, Ivan Fischer). ON LPs, I have the David Oistrakh Bruch Scottish Fantasia, Analog Productions Pictures at an exhibition (Reiner Chicago Symphony), Scheherazade Living Stereo (Reiner Chicago Symphony), Argenta Espana, and Schubert Winterreise.
For example, he once owned an Apogee full range with 2 Krells for the bass, a 4-box Jadis JA 500 for the mids, and a 4-box Jadis Ja 200 for the top, with Levinson crossovers.
Since then, his system has changed, and he has set up the prefect system - which is multiple system each with a different presentation suited to different types of music.
His 5th system is Vivid Giya G1 with Halcro, which I was unable to get a listen to as it's on his lakehouse.
His top system, which he has set up more for Jazz and small ensemble classical, is a GPA Monaco 1.0 with Graham Phantom II and Zyx Diamond G, FMA 122 phono, going into Yamamura electronics and cables with Yamamura horns
There are better pics here
http://www.whatsbestforum.com/showthread.php?13477-My-systems-1&p=245259&viewfull=1#post245259
His second system more for rock and big symphony, is comprised of the Goldmund Apologue driven by 25w Kondo Gakuon 845s and Versa dynamics TT with a Kondo cart. The TT is amazing...tap it while it's playing and no jumps, such is the suspension.
oops that's a really bad pic
I also loved the turntable in his lounge, which was a custom Italian speaker driven by the Goldmund amps, Shindo pre with phono, and a Thorens acrylic TT with Da Vinci Grand Grandezza Reference, and top of the line Jan Allaerts cart. Great TT.
I also learned a lot from chatting with Pietro...he believes in having a TT that is well suspended and spins correct, and spends more on the arm and the cart. The Thorens, for example, is not expensive compared to the arm and the cart on it.
He also had a TEAC tape player on the Goldmund system, and we managed to briefly listen to Solti's Valkyrie.
My demo tracks on digital are usually Bach cantatas (which include chorals and baritone + soprano), Mussorgsky Pictures, Scheherazade, Mahler 2 (Channel Classics, Ivan Fischer). ON LPs, I have the David Oistrakh Bruch Scottish Fantasia, Analog Productions Pictures at an exhibition (Reiner Chicago Symphony), Scheherazade Living Stereo (Reiner Chicago Symphony), Argenta Espana, and Schubert Winterreise.
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