VISIT TO LMC HOME ENTERTAINMENT, SCOTTSDALE, AZ

[Ron Resnick]

Yesterday I met for the first time Mike Ware, proprietor of LMC home entertainment in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mike has a very large and beautiful and elaborate retail facility for demonstrating a wide variety of high-end audio systems.

I think he literally has undisplayed every loudspeaker Wilson Audio makes. There is a very large elaborate room built around WAMM. There is an even larger room with Alexx V at one end end and XVX at the other end. LMC has MartinLogan Neoliths, a long time personal favorite of mine.

He is renovating another very large room to exhibit the full MBL X-treme system. We also met Jordan and Landon, two of Mike's salesmen. Mike also had the $750,000 Sonus Faber system on display in another giant room.

The whole place is a very elaborate and beautiful facility!

 

[bonzo75]

Yesterday I met for the first time Mike Ware, proprietor of LMC home entertainment in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mike has a very large and beautiful and elaborate retail facility for demonstrating a wide variety of high-end audio systems.

I think he literally has undisplayed every loudspeaker Wilson Audio makes. There is a very large elaborate room built around WAMM. There is an even larger room with Alexx V at one end end and XVX at the other end. LMC has MartinLogan Neoliths, a long time personal favorite of mine.

He is renovating another very large room to exhibit the full MBL X-treme system. We also met Jordan and Landon, two of Mike's salesmen. Mike also had the $750,000 Sonus Faber system on display in another giant room.

The whole place is a very elaborate and beautiful facility!

Is there no turntable in this very elaborate and beautiful facility? Or is is at the side?

 

[gleeds]

Yesterday I met for the first time Mike Ware, proprietor of LMC home entertainment in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mike has a very large and beautiful and elaborate retail facility for demonstrating a wide variety of high-end audio systems.

I think he literally has undisplayed every loudspeaker Wilson Audio makes. There is a very large elaborate room built around WAMM. There is an even larger room with Alexx V at one end end and XVX at the other end. LMC has MartinLogan Neoliths, a long time personal favorite of mine.

He is renovating another very large room to exhibit the full MBL X-treme system. We also met Jordan and Landon, two of Mike's salesmen. Mike also had the $750,000 Sonus Faber system on display in another giant room.

The whole place is a very elaborate and beautiful facility!

Cool, Ron! Now lets here what you are doing for non-audio fun in the desert

 

[JiminGa]

He’s got the Varese stacked on top of each other losing a large portion of its potential.

 

[Ron Resnick]

He’s got the Varese stacked on top of each other losing a large portion of its potential.

The Varese is the first truly great DAC I have heard from dCS since early auditions of early dCS stuff at Lyric in Manhattan circa 1986. The Varese is what the Vivaldi Apex should've sounded like.

For my entire life I have found the sound of dCS over the decades to be very highly resolving but dry and clinical and sterile and menthol. The Varese changes all that. Kudos to dCS for better (way) late than never getting this right (to my ears)!

Yes this is analytically invalid because I haven't done direct comparisons, but I am confident now having heard the Varese twice in two different XVX systems that the Varese is state-of-the-art and at the top tier of solid-state DACs.

Varese versus MSB Sentinel versus full Wadax in the same system would be a fascinating comparison.

 

[JiminGa]

Yes the Varese is a major advancement for DCS. I spent several hours with David at a private individuals house with a properly set up/isolated/chasis damped Varese and it smoked everything else I’d heard. No I haven’t heard the full Wadax set up. Just moving around some isolation and dampeners showed just how powerful it is. Night and day right in front of my eyes/ears. Anyone can hear it. I heard several stacked Varese set ups and they are no where near their potential. It’s so good people wouldn’t necessarily know they are missing anything until someone shows them. The incredible brute force engineering is pretty awesome. Digital is uber sensitive to this unfortunately. I think when you say that DCS sounded clinical in the past much of this can be eliminated by optimizing the implementation which I almost never see done.

 

[hifirabbit]

Yes the Varese is a major advancement for DCS. I spent several hours with David at a private individuals house with a properly set up/isolated/chasis damped Varese and it smoked everything else I’d heard. No I haven’t heard the full Wadax set up. Just moving around some isolation and dampeners showed just how powerful it is. Night and day right in front of my eyes/ears. Anyone can hear it. I heard several stacked Varese set ups and they are no where near their potential. It’s so good people wouldn’t necessarily know they are missing anything until someone shows them. The incredible brute force engineering is pretty awesome. Digital is uber sensitive to this unfortunately. I think when you say that DCS sounded clinical in the past much of this can be eliminated by optimizing the implementation which I almost never see done.

Very interesting!
What kind of damping devices seem to work?

 

[Ron Resnick]

I spent several hours with David at a private individuals house with a properly set up/isolated/chasis damped Varese and it smoked everything else I’d heard.

Does damping smooth or sharpen the Varese's sound?

 

[JiminGa]

It sharpens it if you do it right.

 

[JiminGa]

Very interesting!
What kind of damping devices seem to work?

I’ll PM you because I don’t like to talk about brands but concepts

 

[Ron Resnick]

It sharpens it if you do it right.

Thank you.

 

[KeithR]

The Varese is the first truly great DAC I have heard from dCS since early auditions of early dCS stuff at Lyric in Manhattan circa 1986. The Varese is what the Vivaldi Apex should've sounded like.

For my entire life I have found the sound of dCS over the decades to be very highly resolving but dry and clinical and sterile and menthol. The Varese changes all that. Kudos to dCS for better (way) late than never getting this right (to my ears)!

Yes this is analytically invalid because I haven't done direct comparisons, but I am confident now having heard the Varese twice in two different XVX systems that the Varese is state-of-the-art and at the top tier of solid-state DACs.

Varese versus MSB Sentinel versus full Wadax in the same system would be a fascinating comparison.

I’m glad for $300k they can make a musical dac, but the pricing is friggin absurd. People are going to rue the day they bought $300k dacs and $100k servers.

 

[JiminGa]

I’m glad for $300k they can make a musical dac, but the pricing is friggin absurd. People are going to rue the day they bought $300k dacs and $100k servers.

Perhaps they will but the 6 years they put into developing it will inform all their future DACs like the $15,000 Lina X.