ADAM makes loudspeakers that typically feature their ART (heil) driver for the higher frequencies.
The ADAM ‘column’ speaker
The ADAM ‘column’ speaker drivers
The Cary ‘SLP-05’ preamplifier and power supply
On static display – the ADAM ‘Tensor Delta’ speaker
On static display – the rear of the ADAM ‘Tensor Delta’ speaker
The new Hansen Prince E speakers driven by Viola amps [although there was also a Wavestream amp here too] . Everything was on an HRS SXR equipment rack.
Wes Bender, of Wes Bender Studio, whose room this is, trying to turn the tables on me 😉
The Hansen Prince E speaker
The Hansen Prince E speaker
The rear tweeter for the Hansen ‘Prince E’ speaker
The binding posts on the rear of Hansen’s Prince E loudspeakers
HRS SXR equipment rack with Red Point turntable and Viola Audio amplifier
The Red Point turntable from above
The Red Point turntable from above
The Red Point turntable in white
The Red Point turntable in white and closeup of what looks like a Dynavector XV 1S cartridge
The Lindemann 825 CD player
A Wavestream amplifier
What looks likes a Viola preamplifier
The Viola Forte power amplifier
The laptop used in this room
This room was interesting. Like the Kondo room, which this year was a perfect example of their sound – I though this room was a perfect example of the Magico sound.
The sound was tight, punchy, dynamic, high energy – enough harmonics and resolution so a person did not feel cheated. To me, this is what most manufacturers think people want to hear when they enter a dealership. This may even be true, especially for non audiophiles, although I cannot remember about the ultimate impressiveness of the deep bass of this system, also a requirement for people walking into dealerships, and which 1) I do not pay all that much attention to unless it is especially well done, and 2) would be really hard to do anyway in these rooms at this show unless a person a) got lucky or b) spent a lot, A LOT, of time on setup.
There was some confusion, on my part – corrected by you all 🙂 – about which amp was being used in this room. As it turns out , the two CH Precision A1 amps here were not being used – in fact they are off – and the Luxman amps were being used instead [as you all can see by tracing speaker cables in this and the following photo].
Because the Luxman amps have sounded soft and laid back and tonally confused in several of the past rooms I have heard them in [and in the Vivid / Audio Aero room down the hall at this show] I can only speculate on whether they are uniquely able to drive the Magico speakers [and there has to be some degree of truth to this, having heard the Soulution and Technical Brain and several other amps fail at it], or perhaps they just do not mate so well with their own Luxman preamps [but do mate well with the CH Precision preamp] – to my way of thinking, anyway.
Another photo of the room setup
The Magico Q3 speaker
The Magico Q3 speaker
What appear to be Brilliant Pebbles strewn under the cables to the decorative lamps…???
The CH Precision C1 DAC
The CH Precision C1 DAC
The CH Precision A1 amplifier
The CH Precision D1 CD / SACD player
The CH Precision D1 CD / SACD player
The Luxman M-800a amplifier
The Luxman M-800a amplifier
On static display, the CD Precision A1, C1 and D1
