New Bel Canto Gear at RMAF

Thanks for your input. It's the new 500 monos that have caught my attention are are in my price range. Do you recall how the rest of the system at RMAF was configured? Were the M500's being show with the Pre 3? Were they using the Bel Canto Dac or Phono stage? I hear a lot about Bel Canto amps and Dacs but less about their preamp and phono stage.

Good news for tube preamp owners is the input impedance of the new REF1000 Mk II amplifiers, 100kOhms per phase.

This particular setup was considered a Soundstage! Standout Demo. For more details, visit the link:

http://www.soundstage2.com/avtour2008/rmaf_stand_tad.htm

The ref 500's sounded wonderful driving the Joseph Audio RM55 se's.

From the Soundstage blurb linked above:

"The sound was finely detailed and rich with ambience, satisfying even those listeners seated to one side or the other."

Bang on I must say. . . I was one of those people sitting on one side, by the way.

G.