I have heard the rack in two systems. First, my own (Alsyvox plannar speakers, Audio Note CD player and SCHEU ANALOG DAS LAUFWERK No.2 turntable with Tru Glider arm. My electronics from Viva, Backert Labs and McGary Audio), and the system at Dr. Vinyl’s home (which changes over time but is never less than superb). Naturally, I heard both systems “before” and “after.” Rather than go through the list of audiophile observations (the highs, the midrange, the bass, the soundstage, the texture... etc), I would ask readers instead: how do you describe a great live musical experience? You don't describe any of these terms. Rather, you describe the performance itself. Listening through my Alysvox Tintoretto speakers with all components on the Mosart has my wife and I reacting to the sound in exactly the same way - being deeply moved, passionate, bored or even, on rare occasions, annoyed about a particular performance. The transformation was between consciousness of the components to an essentially musical experience. I don’t mean to be naïve here: of course, my system and Dr. Vinyl’s sounded different. His room is far larger than mine, and on the same recording, I was and am aware that the sound stage is larger – larger with the Mosart rack than before in both our rooms, and always larger in his room than mine. With the Mosart rack you can also here every change in equipment or positioning of speakers. Of course, bad recordings are still bad recordings. The point, rather, is that you relax into the sound: it’s just etched and locked in space in both rooms in a radically more relaxing way than with our respective earlier racks. So when you make a change, it’s like making a change in a color or a line in a painting. Recently I A/B’d switching from the DS Audio Grand Master cartridge (don’t ask the price) to their 003 cartridge (still outstanding). No difficulty in hearing the modestly diminished body, texture and air – in and around the instruments – that comes with the much more modest investment. But you always have the experience of listening to a unified sound picture – the noise floor is just much lower, the sound is just “there” in a way that enables you to exhale, to listen. Think of a camera coming into focus: the view may still be ugly or beautiful – but it’s THERE – not one iota of fuzziness.

Dr. David Steiner