Every show leaves me with a handful of rooms that either didn’t work, didn’t work for me, weren’t actually functional, weren’t demoing music, or defied any easy classification. Nonetheless, I have pics of them worth […]
Lessloss was showing the Kaiser Acoustics Vivace “High Performance Loudspeaker”, which starts at $42,500 depending on finish; they looked very impressive in Lamborghini Orange. Fitted out with Scanspeak drivers and a Mundorf AMT tweeter, the […]
GTT Audio brought the big guns to the NYAV show. YG, Soulution, Brinkmann … size, power, skill — it was like a parking a Navy warship in the middle of a carnival. Let’s just say […]
DarTZeel. For me, the name screams “high-end”. The gear is bespoke in the highest degree — big gold face plate and crimson sides. A honking big knob, some big oh-shit handles, and a sound that […]
Sound By Singer‘s Andrew Singer put on a double-feature at the NYAV Show. On the center-right stage was a demo by Verity and VAC that played to a standing-room-only crowd — unless you waited in […]
Room acoustics are the bedevilment of every audio show. This one thing is why you have dozens in the audiophile press say things like “I never listen at audio shows” or “the sound at audio […]
Innovative Audio room filled a relatively small room with some big gear. The big black $27,900 Wilson Sasha loudspeakers were set up along the long wall, driven by the $18,000/pair VTL MB450 Series III amplifiers […]
I found Todd Garfinkle of M-A Recordings holed up in a little room at NYAV, fielding questions over his should, changing the music, all while waving a fistful of US cash around in air. Busy, […]
VAS Industries, the US importer for VAS, Cayin and Aurum Cantus, was showing at NYAV with VPI. Which was really cool. Everything in this room was on the more affordable end of the high-end scale, […]
Any Audio Note fans out there? Well! If you are (or even if you aren’t), NYAV had a cozy little retreat filled with AN gear worthy of a set-to. In the corners were the $19,000 […]
Gideon Schwartz’ Audio Arts room showcased a prototype speaker from Zellaton, the just-released $59,750 Concert. Details, such as impedance and sensitivity, are all forthcoming and should be posted online by next week. Feeding these speakers […]
All that glitters is not gold. Clearly. Because chrome glitters quite brightly, thank you very much. And the big HRX turntable that Peter Lederman, the Soundsmith, brings to each show sure has lots of little […]
On Saturday morning, Stereophile’s John Atkinson chaired an “Ask the Editors” panel. Interestingly, I was not invited to sit on this august panel, though I’m sure it was merely an oversight. Next time. Anyway, please […]
Dave Lalin, New Jersey’s Audio Doctor, was here at NYAV12 showing all manner of things. Depending on how you count, this was the second room (with the Scaena room being first) and this one was […]
Amphion! I first heard an Amphion at a local dealer, Evolution A/V near Tysons Corner, VA. It was an accident. It was in a room that also featured Magico speakers and I was immediately impressed […]
I think it was AXPONA in Atlanta last year that I first saw and heard Light Harmonic’s Da Vinci DAC. It was all-black. It rotated. It was pretty spiffy. It looked a bit Star Wars […]
I have to confess. Okay, I don’t have to, but I’m gonna anyway, so gut it up. Here’s the thing — I’ve never really given Scaena a fair shake. I first heard them at AXPONA […]
Wes Bender Studio NYC put together something more than a room at NYAV this year. It was a tour-de-force. Hansen speakers. Redpoint Audio Design with Zesto for vinyl. Lindemann for discs. Viola Audio Labs for […]
You have to say this for mbl — they’re consistent. Here again is the $260,000 Combination D System I saw at AXPONA, again in that scrumptious white finish. Yum. I didn’t actually get to hear […]
Here’s a novel way to deal with problematic audio show room-acoustics: don’t bring speakers. Instead, Woo Audio brought boatloads of headphones and amplifiers to power them. Tubes were everywhere! Music got served up off of […]
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