Vandersteen, DNA & SMcAudio (AKA "Mod Squad")

After six years with a Parasound 2250 driving Vandy 2 CE to excellent results in my small room, The wife and I have remodeled. On the way is a SMc DNA1 Ultra Gold 18 with an enormous Plitron shipped directly from eBay to Steve. Cloth Quatros, shipping from John Rutan in Verona NJ next week, Anticables 2.1 cables arriving Monday. My preamp is a Sciit Mjolnir 2 tube hybid with Pyst and Vampire interconnects. With a month or more of burn in, calibration, and room treatment ( Mr Rutan has recommended an angled across the room approach to minimize 1st reflections ) I will post results and progress. 
But I am thrilled by where I am headed.

"OK" so here is a bit of a follow up on this...

The "system" was:

The best of two B&K ST-202’s (as was the migration form a vertically bi-amp’d 1988 Vandersteen 2c’s), Vandersteen Quatros (CLOTH edition, as had been spliced into the system from 2C’s), a pair of MIT AVt-2’s, a REGA Apollo CD player (with MIT coax interconnect) feeding a now new Marantz 7702MKII, followed by Audioquest "Water" balanced interconnects to the amp....

As a very (extremely(?)) brief summary, I have been dabbling in this lower end of high-end audio since the late 80’s, and I am beyond anal in mechanics, technical execution, to the point L I S T E N I N G to the "music" over technical merits listening is at best RARE.

So here is the extremely short summary of a McCormack 0.5.modded by SMc-Audio "Gold(+) edition" amp: For the first time in 30+ years, this amp, in that system was "so good", that I actually L I S T E N E D to the "music", instead of critically "anal-i-zing" system performance. The amp was "sooo good" that it for the first time made it about listening to MUSIC instead of analytical "Sterophile" like "auditioning".

If you think you might ever like to actually, and just "listen to MUSIC", buy a freaking McCormmack DNA amp, get it modded... and "listen to MUSIC", it’s that simple, it’s that good. The amp lifted a 30 year curse of endless ANALytcal auditioning, and MADE *MUSIC* (I am certain, thanks to Vandersteen Quatros, etc.)

@kmckenn You are absolutely spot on about what SMc Audio can do with a DNA series amp. And yes, it beckons you to relax and listen to the music for the music’s sake.🎼

What to do next? Get yourself an Omega E-Mat to put inside the door of your electrical service. It "conditions" for lack of a better word, the electricity in your home dropping the noise floor of your audio and video systems. It is remarkable! Search for the thread here about the Omega E-Mat and you can read about the experience of many users.