Tampa Terrace: MBL; United Home Audio; Wireworld Cable Technology and Suncoast Audio.
MBL speakers look and sound out of this world. I like that they just play music. We spent 15 or 20 minutes in this room just listening to beautiful music.
Kilgore: The Audio Company; VAC; Von Schweikert Audio; Esoteric; Kronos Audio; AirTight; Critical Mass Systems; Masterbuilt Audio Cables and Acoustic Sciences Corporation.
Disclaimer: I own Von Schweikert VR-4 Gen III HSE speakers, love their speakers and showed my racks in their rooms at the 2009 and 2010 RMAF.
The Ultra 11 and this system was the most lifelike I have ever heard PERIOD. About 4:30 Saturday afternoon a young man brought in a vinyl record of a big band recording and this system put that big band in the room. With our eyes closed my son and I could see each of the instruments separated in space as they sat on the bandstand. You could even discern individual instrument placements when several of the same type were in a section. I didn’t catch the name of the piece but it was absolutely incredible. I was flabbergasted. We stayed and listened to this million dollar system for the next 20 minutes or so.
Pavilion: Classic Audio Loudspeakers; ATMO-SPHERE Music Systems; Tri-Planar Tonearms and Purist Audio Design.
We finished the day spending about 20 minutes in this room. They were playing reel-to-reel tape and spinning vinyl. The system through the big Classic Audio Loudspeakers sounded spacious and very, very nice. I liked the sound through the ATMOS-SPHERE tube amps. (I’m one of those that find tubes pleasing.) They then hooked up the JBL Hartsfields, while not as smooth and resolving as the other speakers they sounded incredible, especially considering they were first made before I was born. Glad I got the chance to listen to a legend.
All-in-all my son and I had a great time at the show. I learned my son has a discerning ear and had many of the same observations that I did. He was the one who told me to close my eyes and “see” the band in the Von Schweikert room.
Lastly, for those of you who were there, this was me (Minus the Audeze headphones):
Martin
MBL speakers look and sound out of this world. I like that they just play music. We spent 15 or 20 minutes in this room just listening to beautiful music.
Kilgore: The Audio Company; VAC; Von Schweikert Audio; Esoteric; Kronos Audio; AirTight; Critical Mass Systems; Masterbuilt Audio Cables and Acoustic Sciences Corporation.
Disclaimer: I own Von Schweikert VR-4 Gen III HSE speakers, love their speakers and showed my racks in their rooms at the 2009 and 2010 RMAF.
The Ultra 11 and this system was the most lifelike I have ever heard PERIOD. About 4:30 Saturday afternoon a young man brought in a vinyl record of a big band recording and this system put that big band in the room. With our eyes closed my son and I could see each of the instruments separated in space as they sat on the bandstand. You could even discern individual instrument placements when several of the same type were in a section. I didn’t catch the name of the piece but it was absolutely incredible. I was flabbergasted. We stayed and listened to this million dollar system for the next 20 minutes or so.
Pavilion: Classic Audio Loudspeakers; ATMO-SPHERE Music Systems; Tri-Planar Tonearms and Purist Audio Design.
We finished the day spending about 20 minutes in this room. They were playing reel-to-reel tape and spinning vinyl. The system through the big Classic Audio Loudspeakers sounded spacious and very, very nice. I liked the sound through the ATMOS-SPHERE tube amps. (I’m one of those that find tubes pleasing.) They then hooked up the JBL Hartsfields, while not as smooth and resolving as the other speakers they sounded incredible, especially considering they were first made before I was born. Glad I got the chance to listen to a legend.
All-in-all my son and I had a great time at the show. I learned my son has a discerning ear and had many of the same observations that I did. He was the one who told me to close my eyes and “see” the band in the Von Schweikert room.
Lastly, for those of you who were there, this was me (Minus the Audeze headphones):
Martin