by Michael

Lone Star Audio Fest and VSAC Show Reports

Positive Feedback just posted their Lone Star Audio Fest show report by Albert Porter. There are some nice photos of our room (and Neli :-))

Still haven’t seen any on the VSAC 2008 show but I know Dave Cope is taking photos… but his photo gallery on mac.com is closed. 🙁

There is a nice VSAC 2008 show report from sixmoons by Steve Marsh

And speaking of browser compatibility issues, anyone else notice that stereophile.com is not viewable with FireFox? Only 40% of us use that browser… so they probably don’t care… 😉

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 by Michael

Spring is here

It is so nice. A little distracting from my blog posting duties though… Spring in Boulder is a wonderful thing – a transition from gray hues to green and yellow and red and blue and purple….

The SoundLab U1 speakers have been sold. The Acoustic Zen Adagio speakers took their place – but it is not as different ‘feeling’ as I expected it to be…. A speaker down at that end of the room is just like any other speaker, I guess [no photos cause the speakers are on location until their new Adagios arrive].

We have a ARC Ref 3 preamp trade-in [that is for sale, BTW] that we are going to plug in to the system here and hear in a known environment.

Stewart Suda who has been with Audiogon for, what, about 5 years? [since the site got bought from Arnie) has left for greener pastures [or, hopefully, at least less stressful].

Also about Audiogon, they have once again dropped all show coverage from their site since at least Montreal. This is not to say that it won’t pop back up on their site again someday in the future – as this has happened before.

The availability of the new Nordost ODIN power cords have been announced at about $11K for a 4 foot cord ($10,995 for 1.25 meters). [Can’t wait to hear them! … but we’re going to need two…].

The Munich Show is over and the Portland show is starting NOW [Audio Note is there but Mike and Neli are sitting this one out – though some of our precioussss gear is there].

The AN Kegon Balanced amps are still kicking butt and ruining me for listening to any other amp [Neli is more forgiving and still listens to other amps…. poor girl ;-)].

OK, that is about it. If I know Audio Federation, things are quietest before everything happens at once. And June is the end of our fiscal year… so I think I will be glad I am rested up… 🙂

Happy Spring Everybody (above the equator)!

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 by Michael

Lone Star AudioFest 2008

Neli represented Audio Federation at this years’ AudioFest down in Dallas, Texas.

She brought the small Audio Note system, this year focusing on affordability and portability. To that end she just took the CD player, the OTO integrated amplifier and a pair of speakers. Oh and some Sogon cables 🙂

Instead of the Acoustic Dreams equipment rack we decided to try using 3 HRS M3 Isolation Bases instead and put the equipment on the bases on the furniture that would be available. Unfortunately, the furniture selection was not overwhelming.

This year there were 9 exhibitors – about half of last year, and 30 – 40 people came to the room.

Here are some photos:

OK, obviously I did not go. Otherwise there’d be , even with only 9 rooms, what? about 900 photos, right? We’d find out EVERYTHING there is to know about that hotel (cleaner than the Alexis Park, anyway) and those exhibitors. Aren’t we all of us lucky…. 🙂

At least the people that did go got to spend quality time with some nice people.

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