Marty,
Great write up!
Glad I had a chance to see the trophy before the purge.
Did Mike demonstrate his Entreq Poseidon's galvanically isolated middle box?
I'm not sure what the middle box refers to but Mike had two Entreqs. He also had another device called a 'Troy". You know, when something isn't right, you look around and you ask yourself "could this be why", etc. When I was at Mike's, because the sound was so good, I kept looking around asking the converse. "Could this be why it sounds so good?" was firing in my brain nonstop as I mentally poining to a lot of things, but that Troy box really did intrigue me. I've never been an advocate of the whole grounding device overkill thing as I always assumed that if your system is dead quiet, you probably won't benefit from their use, but hey, what do I know? It's definitely got me asking questions.