Was in Amsterdam to listen to Genesis 350SE. Not to my taste, though it is a ribbon magnet.
The interesting thing was the guy was a retired distributor of Marten speakers (the Coltranes are 250k and half a mill), which he didn't like, had Jorma prime cabling all over, and had the top of the line NAT Audio pre and power. He told me he has owned VTL 7.5 MKIII, VTL Siegfrieds, Jeff Rowlands top of the line, none came close. He gave his pre to a friend who owned CAT, the guy based on the pre evaluation also ordered the power, and sold of all his CAT. He has another friend in Austria who, in his private system, has Avantgarde Trios, ML Statements, and Genesis 1.1 (165k). Initially there was a lot of Levinson in there, now it is all NAT.
The above are in addition to a Berlin stockist whom I am meeting next week for a horn demo, who owns NAT, AR, and Einstein, and says nothing come close, and that the NAT entry pre smokes the ARC 5SE. At half the price. Have more such feedback, do give this a listen especially if you are into preamps. The power amps run too hot. <ight be ok for Canada.
And the Power amps are silly beautiful, as you can see below.
The interesting thing was the guy was a retired distributor of Marten speakers (the Coltranes are 250k and half a mill), which he didn't like, had Jorma prime cabling all over, and had the top of the line NAT Audio pre and power. He told me he has owned VTL 7.5 MKIII, VTL Siegfrieds, Jeff Rowlands top of the line, none came close. He gave his pre to a friend who owned CAT, the guy based on the pre evaluation also ordered the power, and sold of all his CAT. He has another friend in Austria who, in his private system, has Avantgarde Trios, ML Statements, and Genesis 1.1 (165k). Initially there was a lot of Levinson in there, now it is all NAT.
The above are in addition to a Berlin stockist whom I am meeting next week for a horn demo, who owns NAT, AR, and Einstein, and says nothing come close, and that the NAT entry pre smokes the ARC 5SE. At half the price. Have more such feedback, do give this a listen especially if you are into preamps. The power amps run too hot. <ight be ok for Canada.
And the Power amps are silly beautiful, as you can see below.