Goodies we are taking to the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest

OK, so our large room will have the EMM Labs DAC2 / TSD1 – unquestionably the best solid-state digital in the world [to most calm, cool, collected people :-)]

And this source will be driving a whole system of ‘best of breed’ components:

The Marten ‘Coltrane Supreme’ loudspeakers.

And, lets see, the Harmonic Resolution MXR equipment rack [the best rack, and good looking to boot] and at least one SXR rack.

All of our Nordost ODIN cable will be there – though we may not be able to deploy the ODIN speaker cable – since we only have one run and we would need two for the Supremes [one for the bass tower and one for the main tower].

Also our Jorma Design PRIME, our 10 meter run of Valhalla, our ELROD, Valhalla, and AcroLink power cords and …

Our Audio Note room will also be world class this year – as opposed to the last two years when we brought one of the least expensive – yet best sounding systems at the show [OK, the bar is pretty low at these shows, so this really isn’t more election year hyperbole – it really was one of the better sounds].

This room this year will have our AN/E SEC Signature speakers in Madrone Burl – Audio Note’s second best speakers and one which, if you ‘get it’ [which really means that you are addicted to the immediacy of high-efficiency speakers but at the same time do not like the problems most horns and HE single-driver speakers have – aka you have the reasonable but not all that common requirement that reproduced music should sound like music] is one of the best speakers as well.

And one of our rooms [see, you are starting to see into our juggling of components between the 2 rooms and here – preparing the most special feast ever for all of our guests – and we keep coming up with more ideas… and we are afraid that some might be decent, in amongst all the many, many crazy ones :-)] will have the best 300B tube-based amplifiers, the Audio Note U.K. Kegon Balanced [see, by separating out amplifiers into which power tube they use, we can have a whole bunch of ‘best amplifiers’ – and it makes sense since each tube has such a different sound]. The other amp will be the 1st or 2nd best amp – with hopefully a different tube… can you guess which one? 🙂

And, uh, that is all we know for now.