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Anyone at the Stereophile show

I'll make a longer review later.
But some of the stuff thats great.
JM Lab Alto speakers in the Musical surrounding room.
Holy Moly does this speaker sound incredible.
Articulate fast and a great bass response.
Garth Leer also played alot of great upbeat tracks.
Some of the music in the other rooms could put you to sleep.

Hyperion speakers. First time hearing them and there a must hear speaker.
There sweet sounding speakers with a good bass response.
Vandersteen 5 speakers sounded phenominal on these Pathos mono tube amps.
The 5s sounded very 3 dimenional and airy.
Gini tube amps and preamp on the 10th floor.
I never heard of this tube amp and preamp.
This is a 300B 845 tube amp.
Its a large tube amp that runs cool. It uses impressive tubes.
Two 300Bs, Two 845's.
It costs 2950 and sounds unbelievable.
They also had a matching preamp and this cool looking acrylic board, which was under the CD player.
Good speakers for the money. The Odyssey speakers that use the Scanspeak 7 inch woofer and tweeter sounded really good.
twilo

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It was my first time there, so it's interesting to hear that the show wasn't has big.

I was also really into the Blue Circle/ Focus room - other favorites were the Almarro room, Mark Levinson's presentation, the Vandy model 5As, DeVores, mbl, VSA VR-4jr. I didn't like the Hyperion's as much as I thought I would. They just weren't engaging. Also, as hard as I try, I just can't get into Joseph Audio speakers. The first time I heard the Pearls, they had just come out and were sent over to Audio Classics in Elmira (I think after a show somewhere - I made the trip to the store to pick up a used MAC amplifier). I heard them with 1000 watt MAC monoblocks...did not like 'em. Unlike the expo, they were set up properly and I wasn't sitting behind a group of people talking - but at the expo they sounded the same. They're definitely up there in the hi-end world, but best of show?!

I was talking to Richard Vandersteen and we came to the conclusion that probably most of the hi-hand speaker designers out there probably don't go out and listen to enough (or any) live music.
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