The Upgrade Company

 

 

Spectral DMA-150 Series 2 amp

 

I hired The Upgrade Company to SE upgrade my Spectral components with great results.  We have the Spectral DMA-150 Series 2 amp, Spectral DMC-20 Series 2 preamp, VPI Aries table/Classic 3 arm w/various upgrades, AcousTech phono preamp, Raysonic CD128 and Avalon Ascendant speakers.  My wife and I are re-hearing our music collection as if for the first time.  We are now clearly aware of understanding the description of "hearing into the music".  And this is on music we are very familiar with.  Massively reduced grain, glare and forwardness over the stock non-upgraded components. Now super musical dynamic liquid powerful and fun to listen to even on the worst recordings.  The stock Spectral’s sounded dull flat undynamic, thin, weak bass, loss of clarity, whitish, hazy sounding.

 

I must admit I was skeptical when you wanted me to replace the Spectral/MIT cables with the TimePortal Reference SE upgraded interconnects and loudspeaker cables.  We started by demo'g the speaker cables first, then a TimePortal Reference SE upgraded XLR interconnect between my Spectral amp/preamp.  Months later we replaced the interconnect between the preamp and digital player followed by TimePortal Reference SE upgraded RCA interconnects from turntable to phono preamp.  Not only was I blown away with just the speaker cable in the system, but each replacement just kept improving the music with simply astonishing results.  Each cable brought significant increased clarity & black backgrounds, much more detail without sounding etched or hard at all, very velvety and organic sounding.  Massively reduced grain, glare and forwardness over the Spectral/MIT Cables in the system. TimePortal Reference SE interconnects greatly increased micro dynamic contrasts, greatly increased the depth and height and width of the soundstage.  The overall presentation is so much more life sized and in our room.  Vinyl has never sounded better and digital is much easier to listen to with a much more refined liquid life-like relaxed presentation without losing any dynamics or detail. 

 

   The Upgrade Company's SE upgrades and the TimePortal Reference SE cables have truly bought out what my Avalon Ascendant loudspeakers are truly capable of.  

Maybe I could have possibly obtained the same results with MIT Oracle’s latest cables, but at roughly 15 times the cost of the TimePortal cables, why would I do that given the tremendous results we now experience?  I doubt that Spectral’s latest gear is that much different from what we have now.  It is doubtful their latest models are even as good as what we now have since even the latest models from big name manufacturers are all internally naked reproducing RFI & EMI more then the music itself given the pulse rate of the music versus the pulse rate of RFI & EMI.  Game changer.

 

   I would encourage anyone who’s in the market for system upgrades or cables to give The Upgrade Company & TimePortal Cables a try. They’re buy-back guaranteed to outperform anything you can find.  I think it’ll be the very best money you’ll invest into your system.  Attached is a photograph.

 

Robert Hack

Muncie, IN