All photos by Dave Clark, words by Carol Clark... more on AXPONA 2018.
Sue Toscano has an endless supply of energy, I was hoping it would rub off!
Gayle Sanders with his new Eikon loudspeaker, room correction, amplifier, DAC, all-in-one system debuted at AXPONA. System total $24,5000. The sound was quite remarkable. While Gayle is a bit blurry, the sound was spot on in-focus.
David Solomon has a very engaging way of presenting music. He was running the demos for the Eikon system.
According to the sheet we picked up in this room, Jolida is changing their name to Black Ice Audio in 2018. Featured was their new products Fusion F 159 phono preamplifier, F 360 preamplifier, and Fusion DAC DSD. They had a manufacturing prototype of a power amplifier, the Fusion F35P. The room included Salk Sound Song 3 Encore loudspeakers, a VPI Scout turntable, and Morrow Audio cabling.
Studio Electric with ModWright Instruments and Fern & Roby front-end. This room sounded quite nice.
Also in the Studio Electric, a gorgeous Fern & Roby Montrose turntable.
Fern & Roby makes solid, beautiful products. This is the Tredegar Turntable, $14,500. We spent some time listening in this room, wonderful sound. Delicate and natural. Ease...
The Towers, two-way floorstanders from Fern & Roby. The loudspeakers are $9500 and were shown with the outboard crossover. Cabling in this room from Black Cat Cable.
Also in the Fern & Roby room, Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL preamplifier, $2650.
Closeup of the Fern & Roby loudspeaker. The sides are brass plates, with a wooden front. Remarkable.
The Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel was a new location for this year's AXPONA. The interior was stunning.
Angel City Audio (ACA) with their Seraphim Prime, $25,000.
Also with ACA, Triangle Art Maestro turntable, monoblock amplifiers, and preamplifier. TEO Audio cabling.
Catching up with Hugh Nguyen of Angel City Audio.
Sonner Audio Legato Duo, Abbingdon Music Research DP-777, and Luxman L-509X amplifier.
In the Stereo Haven room Falcon Acoustics LS3/5A loudspeakers. Line Magnetic LM508 integrated amplifier, LM34 integrated amplifier, LP33 phono stage. Well Tempered Lab Simplex MK2 turntable, Kauri MC cartridge. Dynavector P-75 MK4 phon stage. Box Furniture racks. Isotek Polaris power strip, and power cords. All cables by Auditorium.
Well Tempered Lab Simplex MK2 turntable with Kauri MC cartridge.
Aurender.
The new Aurender ACS10 music server.
Aurender and GamuT.
GamuT loudspeakers. Wonderful.
Source Systems Ltd, Harbeth 30.1 loudspeakers. The room also featured Lumin streamers/renderers and NAS devices. Lindemann Music Book amplifiers, fi-data I.O. data devices, M2Tech, and Esprit Audio cabling.
Daedalus Audio new for 2018 Apollo 11 loudspeakers, $22,800 with DiD-SPK isolation devices. Lampizator Pacific DAC, $29,995 and Super Komputer music server, $8500. Linear Tube Audio, MicroZOTL preamplifier $4000, and LTA ZOTL power amplifier, $6800. Skogrand Cables Vivaldi series interconnects, speaker cables, and power cords.
Lou Hinkley of Daedalus Audio will happily play requests for anyone who asks. He knows I like the Cure, so he had a goodly selection available for me. I asked for "Play for Today" from Seventeen Seconds. I've mentioned before that this is one of my perfect songs, and a few years ago at RMAF Lou played a live version from Paris, it produced the desired shivers. This year at AXPONA I experienced the same perfect song vibes I always do with this song. Magical.
The Sound Environment. Totem loudspeakers, Naim, Transparent cables, HRS Isolation Base, and Aurender.
The Naim Atom. Gautam has one in for review.
Toska Audio featuring Goldnote Audio from Italy. First U.S. showing for Goldnote. The turntable and phono stage have been reviewed elsewhere in Positive Feedback.
Stunning sound from Goldnote.
The only information I have on this room is that it was Jim Clark Stereo with Bob Carver Corp. and Audioquest. Not the Jim Clark, but the other Jim Clark.
Innuos Music Servers. YG Acoustics, Audio Research, Transparent.
Innuos Music Servers.
Triode Wire Labs power cords, speaker cables, interconnects, and digital interconnects. Volti Audio Rival loudspeakers, Border Patrol Audio amplifier and DAC.
Volti Audio Rival loudspeaker.
AudioQuest, AMG Turntables, Audio Research, Aurender, Harmonic Resolution Systems, Ultra Fidelis, Vandersteen Audio.
Fern & Roby, this room featured their Montrose turntable, not pictured. Also Linear Tube Audio MicroZOTL preamplifier, Spatial Audio X2 Midular Dipole. Cables by Audioquest.
Spatial Audio X2 loudspeakers and Linear Tube Audio ZOTL amplifer.
Bel Canto electronics. Great sound here.
Magnepan 3.7i, Mark Levinson 335, Allnic Audio L-4000, Silnote Audio cables, Schiit Audio Yggdrasil.
Wyred 4 Sound Music Server, Recovery USB Reclocker, DAC 2v2se, STP-SE preamplifier, and new St-750-LE. Fritz Speakers had their Carbon 7 SE and Carrera BE on hand. Cables by Wyred 4 Sound.