Ked,
I'm looking carefully at the photos and am compelled to ask: The guy appears to be a passionate, detail oriented fanatic with bases upon bases and feet upon feet for his gear. So I wonder if you had any discussion about the placement of his various statues and figurines. Are these for sonic benefit or are they purely aesthetic?
BTW I was also impressed with his lair of Stealth cables. Not sure of the models but i tried a few recently and they are both insanely expensive but also extremely good, particularly the Sakra V12. I first heard these to good effect at Philip O'Hanlons (he uses them to hook up his analogue tape machine to his preamp, although they were the Indra model. Still quite excellent.
Marty
Lol. The statues must be for aesthetics. That said, there was one spot behind the listener where I looked and said oh you have one of these too. Detlof naturally thought me being Indian, I was referring to that big statue of Lord Krishna. But my religion has changed so much, I hadn't even noticed it and was looking past it directly at the Acoustic revive schumann resonator in the corner
As for the Stealth, yes, he has a lot of Stealth, and many not being used. Jazzhead swears by his Stealth cables too, and he has tried various high end cables including Zensati and Jorma. My problem with them is they are expensive plus they are stiff, and no way do I have Detlof's energy to carefully weed them through the equipment. I tried that with Virtual Dynamics once never again.
My suggestions to him were - first, my standard suggestion for all systems - Shun Mook diamond resonators. He could start with trying one set under his dac, then pre, then phono, see how he likes it. Two, try the Ortofon A90/95/Anna, maybe A90 as that is the cheaper, and because Ortofon has a very different timbre to Goldfinger and Kondo IO gold, so it could be a good variation and realtively cheap to try.
Btw, I forgot to add, he also has some tape decks - at least two, but they weren't working that day.
