Dorkwad, I haven't seen any such endorsement. Dan Wright is certainly aware of the Audio Magic product line. He does offer some of their products as options. Who knows if Dan has evaluated the Illusions? I will try to get a preliminary A/B going once I have another 10-20 hours on the 1st umbilical.
Audio Magic umbilical w/ Modwright CD players
Can anyone who has used Modwright's own umbilical (the light blue one) and now uses Audio Magic's, please describe the difference in sound? Was it 100% a good thing? There has been some talk about the AM being quite a bit better sounding in some ways than MW's umbilical. I have a MW 5400 with all the upgrades and my speakers are a fully upgraded VMPS RM40 w/ MLS cabinets. I have an Edge amp and Audible Illusions 3A w/ gold phono. The system is very transparent, detailed and dynamic.