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LA Audio Show 2017: Day 1

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Cambridge Audio. I don't know what it is but I am never impressed with what these guys show at these suites. They need better demo material or something.

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Artos Audio, Audio Valve, Cantano turntables, high-end electronics.

You Look Good To Me by Oscar Peterson Trio. https://shz.am/t10469216

Classic demo track:


Sounded nice but way too much ($48,000) for these speakers.
 
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Vocativ. Lyric Audio, High-end Electronics.
Kanakassi by Cécile Verny Quartet. https://shz.am/t93490465

Not the same track but representative:

Cecile's recordings are always excellent and this was no exception. Sounded great here even though I had a side seat.
 
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The top end Paradigm Persona 9H was one of my favorite rooms/speakers at AXPONA 2017. Here it was the smaller brother without the powered sub which also did room eq. Performance at mid to top end was very good but absence of room eq for bass is a miss.
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PMC does a lot of business in pro market. Here, they brought one of their passive pro speakers and a few residential ones. I am not a fan of the residential products and they are priced pretty high. The studio monitor though, sounded very good. AVM electronics.

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PMC smaller floor standing speaker:

Running To Stand Still by Jenna Mammina. https://shz.am/t46820414


Wasn't to my liking. Had him switch to the larger floor stander next to it and it was a major improvement. I say if you are interested in PMC, stick with their professional line even though they won't win any awards as far as how they look.
 
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Nothing new here at Prism Sound. I pushed them to add a remote control to this DAC as otherwise, the volume control is useless (to me anyway). He said they are thinking about it for a future product.
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Roy Hargrove by Dave Brubeck. https://shz.am/t11100915


Nice.

Spirit by Hiromi Feat. Anthony Jackson & Simon Phillips. https://shz.am/t123737499

 
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Gamut, Pear Audio Blue
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They had designed a new pre-amp module to accept direct input from Reel to Reel!
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I think this is the first company to have done that.

Mercy Street by Peter Gabriel. https://shz.am/t5185636


Sounded OK.

Tattoo by Janis Ian. https://shz.am/t20121231


Very nice but boomy.

He played a tape for me and it sounded excellent.
 
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