Silver Spring, MD
First up, let me give a great big thanks to Paul Elliott, the CAF “staff photographer”, for letting me edit, mangle, colorize, and pixelate his batch of truly wonderful images from the show. He did […]
There are a couple of “makers” in the high-end that command respect. Or that I just have respect for. Not like Aretha, though I suppose that fits, but more like fist-to-chest with a murmured “Res-speck” […]
Koby Koranteng of HiFi Logic put on a great room and a great show. The Audio Space Reference 3.1 300b ($4,000) integrated is a truly spectacular-looking piece of kit and just sounds fabulous with the “matching” Audio Space […]
If you’re into analog, you really ought to be into tape. It’s not that analog tape machines (necessarily) sound better than turntables, but rather that the tapes you can get these days sound so much better than […]
Gary Yacoubian and the crew from SVS put on something a little different from the crowd at CAF. And at 9am on Sunday morning (an hour before the show opened), with yours truly toting an […]
Much like the metal that coats Wolverine’s skeleton, the bits on display in the Deja Vu Audio room are all made from unobtainium. It’s not clear where they get these ancient transformers and whatnots, but […]
When I am King, things will be different. Among the “different things” will be my palace, where I will have several magnificent listening rooms, decked out for my aural pleasures. They will be huge and […]
It’s nice to see my TIDAL Audio’s Contriva Diacera SE loudspeakers ($64,190 with polished veneer) whenever possible! So nice of Doug White of The Voice That Is to bring them down for us to drool on. His […]
Bill Hutchins of LKV Research was showing off his new baby, the Phono 2-SB ($2,500). This Swiss Army knife phonostage has pretty much everything you could want, including both balanced (40/50/59dB) and unbalanced inputs (34/44/53dB). […]
Merrill Wettasinghe, the eminently affable man behind Merrill Audio, was showing off a quartet of his Veritas mono blocks ($6,000 each), driving a pair of Sanders ESL loudspeakers, obviously biamping them. The Veritas amps feature […]
Splitting two rooms, Triode Wire Labs, Charles Rollo Audio (formerly Swap Meet Audio), and GT Audio Works were clearly having a fine time of it. Triode Wire Labs was showing off his brand new “American Speaker Cable” […]
Bob Sattin of Bob’s Devices has this great big white lab coat he wears around audio shows. It’s sorta funny, sorta serious, but the idea is that Bob is the guy that’s gonna fix your […]
On the fourth floor, in the Magnolia Ballroom, a sort of marketplace in the round was set up, and there was lots of interesting things to shop and browse. Stereodesk had three tables in there, […]
Will it spoil it much if I say that this was my favorite room? Probably. Oh well. It was incredible. Robin Wyatt of Robyatt Audio had a pair of Quad ESL-63 loudspeakers, reconditioned and then […]
Surreal Sound‘s Ralph Hellmer was on showing off his Fifth Row loudspeakers (shown “au naturel” in a Baltic Birch), with their new Heil tweeter (first order, brought in at 3kHz). In case you’ve not heard […]
Spent some time hanging out with my pal Simon from Woo Audio, lamenting about how hard it is to set up a demo room at an audio show. All that fussing with positioning, room nodes, […]
Carol Taylor from Stereodesk was showing of the Albedo HL 2.2 ($6,600/pair) ceramic-driver loudspeakers, paired with electronics from Crayon and Musica Pristina. Kaplan Cables used throughout. The Crayon gear sat on a magnificent reclaimed-wood table. […]
Vinnie and Alexis from Red Wine Audio had a full setup behind the Harbeth 30.1 loudspeakers, including a fully loaded Isabella pre ($6,000 as configured), a finally finalized, ready-to-deliver Signature 57 and a pair of […]
AJ was displaying his brand-new VSF-T1 ($3,500/pr), with open-baffle/opposing dual 12″ subs with a 300wpc integrated plate amp to drive them. Up top are dual 8″ (60hz-1kHz), a planar magnetic horn (1kHz-15kHz), which hands off […]
Bill Dudleston of Legacy Audio was showing the new Aeris ($17,750) loudspeakers on one end, and on the opposite, the Whisper XD ($21,500) and Signature SE ($6,450). All of these speakers sport the new AMT […]
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