CAS Day 1

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Day 1 at the California Audio Show just "OUTSIDE" of San Francisco. Seems like less number of rooms than the past two years. But fairly good sound all around. Of course, as I said that, the Aurrender music server in the Magico room went down, and the sound after the reboot became horrible. The programs are excellent with quality topics and discussions.

Wilson/ARC combo was very impressive overall. Sony with Blue Coast was playing good music until they switched to the Sony server playing some non-Blue Coast music. They have a special VFET monoblocks made by Nelson Pass using some 40-year old VFET transistors dug out of Sony warehouse. The price sheet said they are not for sale.

Margules from Mexico was also great sounding in a smaller scale room. BMC with their electronics & speaker sounded wonderful as well.

The overall theme this year seem to be retro and small watt SET/push-pull amps. At least 2/3 of the rooms are going with small amps. Also, a reflections of times, many of the exhibitors are very explicit that everything you see is for sale.

Got to listen to a live performance/ recording at Blue Coast and heard the raw recording immediate afterwards, as well as a demonstration of what type of mastering the engineers do to the sound afterwards.

FrankC

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Topic - CAS Day 1 - FrankC 17:57:07 08/15/14 (14)

RE: CAS Day 1 - fantja 05:07:40 08/17/14 (0)

RE: CAS Day 1 / Mexico... - wangmr 02:00:32 08/17/14 (0)

RE: CAS Day 1 - Jive Turkey 17:42:50 08/16/14 (0)

RE: CAS Day 1 - Chris from Lafayette 22:19:52 08/15/14 (0)

RE: CAS Day 1 - TWB2 19:29:34 08/15/14 (6)

Not unless Norah Jones really is 7 feet tall. - FrankC 11:25:04 08/16/14 (2)

RE: 7 feet tall. - genungo 13:09:03 08/16/14 (1)

I'm sure that's not the case as..... - FrankC 18:57:43 08/16/14 (0)

Yeah, but you can't trust attendees... - Ivan303 20:22:54 08/15/14 (2)

RE: Yeah, but you can't trust attendees... - rjd 21:37:30 08/15/14 (1)

I alway LIVED in your room.... - Ivan303 06:12:39 08/16/14 (0)

Planning to be here tomorrow... - Ivan303 18:58:34 08/15/14 (0)

Olive Streamer - FrankC 18:05:33 08/15/14 (0)

More pics - FrankC 17:59:55 08/15/14 (0)

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