Westlake Audio was showing their speakers and their ‘Speaker Muffs’ – damping material that goes around the outside of the speaker drivers.
A Westlake loudspeaker
A Westlake loudspeaker photo with the Speaker Muffs more obvious to the eye, I think
Ray Kimber’s IsoMike room featured Sony SSAR1 speakers driven by Pass Labs amps with EmmLabs digital as sources.
Didn’t really spend much time listening here – perhaps Neli will have something to say.
We also went and checked out their static display, where we listened to headphones plugged into the Emm Labs PRE2 preamp. Neli and Emm Labs’ Shahin were more impressed than I was. Me? I do not think headphones turn me on – the sound being thin and with the instruments playing in my head – but YMMV.
I need to do a report on our PRE2 sometime soon – this solid-state preamp is unlike any other solid-state preamp – the purity of the harmonics makes a tube amp unnecessary, and one might say redundant. It really sounds superbly superb on/with solid-state amps.
The IsoMike room itself is impressive, and black… should photograph the mice-like maze of curtains one goes through to get into this room. Reminds me of Halloween parties when I was a youngster. 
The Sony SSAR1 loudspeaker, which is used every year here form the last few years
The Sony SSAR1 loudspeaker
The Meitner MA-1 DAC and EMM Labs DAC 8
The EMM Labs XDS1 CD / SACD player
The EMM Labs PRE2 linestage preamplifier
The Pass Labs X350.5 amplifier with purple guardian
The Pass Labs X350.5 amplifier with purple guardian from above
The Emm Labs PRE2 linestage with headphones sitting on top
The Emm Labs TSD1 transport and DAC2 DAC
The new Meitner MA-2 CD+ CD / SACD player
The new Meitner MA-2 CD+ CD / SACD player
The new Meitner MA-2 CD+ CD / SACD player back panel
Ray Kimber in a very phosphorescent coat – he went into the adjoining room and just turned out the light… and pop! – in any kind of situation without much light, this coat just shines. A person could get blinded
Manipulating the playlist with an iPad / tablet
EMM Labs’ Shain looks on as Neli listens through the headphones to the PRE2 preamp.
The back panel of the Emm Labs PRE2 with theb headphones plugged in to the audio outputs
In this room Lamm showed two pairs of their ML2.2 amplifiers driving Verity’s statement Lohengrin loudspeakers. Kubals-Sosna cables and NEODIO digital. This is all the same as it was last year, near as I can tell, and the sound was also very similar if not exactly the same as last year. The major difference here was the Kronos turntable instead of the DaVinci turntable last year.
Like last year, then, the sound was was rich and well articulated. In many ways this is the prototypical Lamm show sound – a little laid back, relaxing, hypnotic, musical, with enough depth of character to keep one there for hours if one did not have a zillion other rooms to see.
This is the view from the couch:: Lamm ML2.2 amplifiers on Verity Lohengrin speakers.
The Verity Lohengrin speaker
The Verity Lohengrin speaker from the side
The Verity Lohengrin speaker from the rear, a closeup of the binding posts
The Verity Lohengrin speaker rear. A large port and a few small ones. Think the photo last year was better…?
The Verity Lohengrin speaker from exactly in front of the speaker.
A few shots of the Lamm Ml2.2 SET amplifier
The Lamm Ml2.2 SET amplifier
The Lamm Ml2.2 SET amplifier
The phalanx of the two pair of Lamm ML2.2 amplifiers
Closeup of the rear panel of the Lamm ML2.2 amp
The rear panel of the Lamm ML2.2 amp from above
The Lamm Ml2.2 SET amplifiers – the wiring here of the two pairs to optimally drive the Veiity Lohengrin speakers is not all that obvious.
The Kronos turntable and rack
The Kronos turntable and rack from the side
The Kronos turntable
The Kronos turntable, closeup, and the Dynavector XV-1 cartridge
The Kronos turntable from side with the belt / motor.
The 2nd rack, a Mapleshade, had the Lamm preamps and NEODIO digital
The Neodio NR 22 transport
The Neodio NR 22 DAC
The Lamm L2 Reference linestage preamplifier power supply
On static display: the Lamm ML2.2 amplifier with open chassis
On static display: the Lamm ML2.2 amplifier with open chassis, closeup and personal
