… because I do not have time and think I already know in which ways they are good…

Over on 30, the $50K 50 watt Audio Power Labs on the Von Schweikert VR5 Signature… very nicely dynamic, very well controlled, good harmonic color and detail. Very nice and open in a large-scale-from-4-foot-tall speaker kind of way.

On floor 30 too, CH Precision electronics on the Magico Q3. This is the epitome of that very controlled, dynamic, detailed, fairly linear responses, fairly soulless presentation we called the ‘gee-whiz’ sound a few shows ago [and still do], but the CH Precision amps [no, apparently this was the Luxman M-600A stereo amp] are able to control these hard to drive Q3 speakers better, I think, than any other amps I have heard with these speakers [several], especially in terms of the control over the speakers [not running out of steam] and with sufficient micro-dynamics so that it comes off sounding much closer to real music. Thing about the gee-whiz sound is that they are fun, I think, although lacking in emotional involvement and kind of bereft of any kind of drug-like out-of-body experience potential. I thought it was a lot of fun, in fact.

We have 3200 or so photos so far, every room every component, but still have most of floor 4 at THE Show to finish and just a few rooms on 30 at the Venetian.

So the rest of the day is dedicated to listening, I hope.

I would like to go back and hear more of:

* The ONEDOF table versus the Neodio digital in the big Lamm room [though I liked the sound better in the small Lamm room this year I think]

* Franco Serbli’s Ktema speakers to see just how much of their own sound they bring to the music and how that sonic signature differs from the classic Sonus Faber sound.

* The Magico Q7 speakers

* YG Acoustics Anat 3 on Tenor and the smaller YG on the old 400 watt Krell

* Perhaps the statement Sonus Faber again, though I got the feeling that these finally are the big version of the Stradivarius we all expected last year.

* The Granada speakers on the Smc pre instead of the Wavac pre

* Perhaps the Kondo room again just to get more of a feel for what they are trying to accomplish with their new speakers

I go to the gym every other day – functional fitness, crossfit training, weight training, aerobics, some yoga, etc. but all this squatting down and lunging and curls and contorting myself with this 10lb? camera – trying to get the best shot 3000+ times I guess – has really been … let’s just say I just wasn’t as well-prepared for it as I thought I would be. 🙂

(THE Show) Lotus Group’s (tri-wired) Granada Speakers, WAVAC amp, and Audio Power Labs amp

(THE Show) Acapella’s Violon speakers and Einstein electronics

New Davone speaker.