Excerpt:
" I'm an audiophile because of the music I grew up on in Chicago blues bars. Those bands, those venues were not about ambience and delicacy. The music was direct drive of the soul. I wanted that feeling in my house… that uplift. And while my taste in music and the reproduction of it has broadened and gained in sophistication—I still value an upfront, direct communicator above all. I'd sacrifice the subtle, beguiling midrange glow of the Ayre, and the slightly deeper, more 3D presentation of the Berkeley for the direct feed quality of the Bel Canto. "
