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AXPONA 2026: Esoteric Audio Solutions Virtuosa ($60K)

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Speakers made in Lithuania "by hand:"
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Sounded OK. Doesn't sound much better on my headphones right now.

Eva Cassidy delivers here, sounding very nice.

This is their second suite:
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And third???
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They said the back comes with clear plexiglass as you see here:

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Price was $20K I think.

Common track in this show to show off dynamics:
I didn't write my impression. :(
 
If nothing else, at least they made an effort with the room.(Bass traps, diffraction-apsortion panels)
Something that I didn't see in Andrew Jones room?
 
Something that I didn't see in Andrew Jones room?
Andrew had taken the mattress from the hotel, wrapped in some fabric and stuffed it by the window to act as a bass trap!
 
Andrew had taken the mattress from the hotel, wrapped in some fabric and stuffed it by the window to act as a bass trap!
If you think about it, it's funny: a meeting of the biggest manufacturers of high-end audio, technological equipment, speakers costing hundreds of thousands of dollars/euros
and then you have to roll up a mattress to make a bass trap...
 
hundreds of thousands of dollars/euros
and then you have to roll up a mattress to make a bass trap...
Yeah, but I also think it's kind of cool and funny that he handled it in such an old-fashioned way, without any glamour.
 
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