Overall, it was a good show. There was a good range of equipment and approximately 65 rooms. Attendance on Saturday was good - almost at reasonable capacity. Several rooms had a short wait. Everyone was very friendly and willing to help and educate.
Tube gear was abundant and there was a good a good diversity of vinyl set ups. One of the few rooms playing CDs was the MSB room. They had the Magico M2’s singing. I did a double take behind me to make sure someone wasn’t snapping their fingers - nope, I should have known the first time that the speakers were throwing real images.
On other individual rooms, the Magico M6 and MBL rooms were very impressive. On the more reasonably priced equipment rooms, I was impressed with sound out of the Fyne Audio speakers. They were playing in two rooms and I was very impressed what sound you can get from $2,500 speakers.
My favorite room was Salon Audio’s room. The pair of Wilson Sasha DAW driven by VTL equipment sounded surprisingly good given the listening environment.
And for any folks out there believing all those tweaks vendors are snake oil salesmen needs to visit a Synergistic Research presentation. They had a room and Ted Denney gave a telling demonstration of some of Synergistic’s products. I have to say I was shocked by the magnitude of impact.
I had a fun day and wish to thank all that contributed to the Expo.
Tube gear was abundant and there was a good a good diversity of vinyl set ups. One of the few rooms playing CDs was the MSB room. They had the Magico M2’s singing. I did a double take behind me to make sure someone wasn’t snapping their fingers - nope, I should have known the first time that the speakers were throwing real images.
On other individual rooms, the Magico M6 and MBL rooms were very impressive. On the more reasonably priced equipment rooms, I was impressed with sound out of the Fyne Audio speakers. They were playing in two rooms and I was very impressed what sound you can get from $2,500 speakers.
My favorite room was Salon Audio’s room. The pair of Wilson Sasha DAW driven by VTL equipment sounded surprisingly good given the listening environment.
And for any folks out there believing all those tweaks vendors are snake oil salesmen needs to visit a Synergistic Research presentation. They had a room and Ted Denney gave a telling demonstration of some of Synergistic’s products. I have to say I was shocked by the magnitude of impact.
I had a fun day and wish to thank all that contributed to the Expo.