There were two Great Plains Audio Club rooms this year at GPAF, one run by Mark Margiota and another by Akhilesh Bajaj. Mark's room was virtually a second Audio Note room because his system contains a lot of Audio Note gear. It was a great sounding room, as always!

Mark Margiotta, ready to spin another disc

Mark has an excellent record collection, literally hundreds and hundreds of pressings, many very rare and most in great shape. So he not only prides himself in having a great system, but also for having lots of good software to use on it. The system consists of Audio Note Conquest 300B monoblocks with WE tubes, AN/e LX loudspeakers, AN LX speaker cables and ANVx interconnects, Audible Illusions Modulus 3A preamp, Meridian 508.24 CD Player and a Sota Comet turntable with Audioquest PT-6 tonearm and Sumiko Blue Point Special cartridge.

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