Hello Michael,
Thank you so much for your very positive review of our room. For us this is proof that all the hard work and long hours put in by our team really paid off.
…and it definitely was very much a team effort.
I agree it was a system that demonstrated the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Nevertheless I would say a great degree of that "flow and effortlessness" you refer to was curtesy of the wonderful Audiopax L50 pre-amp and M50 mono-blocks. Silvio's tireless efforts to get these working at their best with the electrical supply at the MOC and with the Avantgarde Duo Omega's was a large percentage of the reason for the wonderful result we were getting.
Our unpaid computer hardware wizard, Edward Hsu also deserves a great deal of credit for fully tricking out that naked PC in the 3rd photo and suggesting the USB-Regen; but a lot of behind the scenes contributors made suggestions to Eddie for tweaking the PC and discovering that Win 10 Preview sounds better than any extant OS at this time.
It is my and Eddie's intention to build a version of this machine in a nice case as a plug 'n play solution.
Our goal is to achieve the best possible SQ together with the convenience that people expect from today's computer based systems.
Two small corrections:
It is actually Jussi Laako the author of HQPlayer that drew from his experience with sonar to create the DSP filters that allows us to improve ordinary Redbook sources to the extent that we were at the show.
NOTE: Those sources included streaming from Qobuz and Tidal which benefitted from exactly the same DSP and conversion to DSD128 as files on the internal SSD.
In the third paragraph from the bottom you refer to my company as "Sound Designs" rather than correctly as Sound Galleries as in the rest of the article.
Thanks once again Michael and we will welcome any suggestions you may have for our proposed music server and indeed suggestions from other members of Audio Stream.
Geoff Armstrong
Sound Galleries,