California Audio Show ths wknd bttr than expected

Correction: those Revels were the Salon2.

Stand out rooms for me:

Lotus Group Granada open-baffle speaker. I'd heard it before, but this time I understood what all the fuss is about. Have them play the Boz Scaggs.

Evolution Acoustics with Dartzeel and Playback Designs. These were the smaller EA speakers in a fairly small room and I really loved the sound. Jonathan Tinn plays excellent music.

Magico V3 on the 14th floor.

Revel Ultima Studio 2 on the first floor. First time I had heard this speaker and it's hard to find fault with it. An engineering tour de force it seems to me.

Whichever room was playing the Quad ESl-2805. Too much bass where I was sitting but they sounded sweet and true like no other.

The new Martin Logan Ethos speakers impressed me.

YG Acoustics Carmel are very impressive on a lot of levels.

I'm not certain, Grant, but probably. Lotus Group distributes the VRE-1, right?

And that's just for the Prana Wire cables. But at least it was a system actually that sounded like a (half) million bucks

Excellent blog posts and photos by Jason Serinus up on Stereophile.