@jond , thanks for your comment [and sorry for my English].
- pics won't come any time soon, alas, as the room is a mess ;-)
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Aries Cerat is by very far the best music-conveying gear I have ever
heard, in my whole life. I goes well beyond the typical audiophile criteria (even if they
better all high-end gear I heard on those criteria). But what they
achieve is well beyond. I had quite an hallucination when I once heard a
whole Aries Cerat system: my brain could simply not reconcile what it
was hearing and what it was seeing: obviously there was a choir in front of
me, I was in a concert hall, but what I saw was a system! It deeply
destabilized me during approx. 20-30sec to an extent you cannot
imagine. It was a real shock. I had NEVER heard such a wonder in my whole audiophile life.
I have listened to
dozens of ultra-high end gears, and I regularly attend classical
concerts, so I know how it sounds in reality.
As you have Audio Note UK gear, try to listen to an Aries Cerat Helene DAC (expensive, big, but the most affordable though).
I am pretty sure the 25w SET integrated amplifier, the Genus, from Aries Cerat, would be terrific in your system, but it is big and heavy (147 lbs !!); that thing is not of this world. It can even wake up low sensitivity speakers.
What a wonderful hobby!