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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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Beautiful pics! FrankC.
for north america seems very under-represented. wonder why.
roger wang.
Thanks for the post. I'm going to head up Sunday morning. I want to get another look/listen to the Pear Audio Blue turntables. I believe Audio Vision SF has them in their room.
I was out late last night playing Poker, so decided to go up Sunday, well rested, instead of today.
See ya. Dave
I was there today too, but I posted over on the Music Forum because I've got more of an emphasis on the (classical) source material as well as the equipment itself. Link below.
Where is your photo and comment on the Sound Lab/Ultimate Audio room? Many attendees are saying it's the best sound of the show.
Sorry, I'm not convinced that it is.
FrankC
If Norah performed while up on a bandstand (a distinct possibility), "7 feet tall" might be the close to the correct perspective for a member of the audience.
So many speakers throw truncated soundstages, making singers seem like midgets or like someone who is standing in a hole, three or four feet tall. THAT is definitely not lifelike - at least not in Norah's case.
it is a studio recording, not a live recording. And I'm talking about scale as a whole, not just the height.
FrankC
I have attended at least one sometimes 3-4 audio shows a year and I tell EVERYONE that their room is the best in the show. ;-)
Gee thanks ivan
Brought my pillow and blanket and spent the night there.
THAT'S how you tell if I like a room! ;-)
Hopefully, for the full day.
Looks promising. Model w/o internal storage ($500), 1TB($600), 2TB($700) that has built-in DAC & amp to power headphones & speakers as well.
I want to use it to stream music from NAS to a DAC. Can control using iPhone/iPad and Android. What's not to like for the price?
FrankC
Special Nelson Pass based on 40-year old technology and NOS transistors.
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