SOtM is a Korean company [ hi Mae! 🙂 ] that has grown by leaps and bounds since I first took photos of their room many years ago. Many international manufacturers like this have decided Axpona is, more or less, the one show they will exhibit at each year in the U.S. The mantle has largely passed from CES, to RMAF, to Newport, and now to Axpona, in fairly rapid succession. The future… ? [yes, I know. Munich 🙂 ]
I had high hopes for this room but it was extremely digital sounding. I have heard CH Precision amplifiers sound best-in-class on Magico and YG Acoustics loudspeakers, which are fairly high resolution speakers themselves, so I do not necessarily feel the problem was with these speakers, no matter how high their resolution is. And the music server appeared to be well-loved so presumably it also has produced quality sound in the past, so… Maybe it was just something weird while I was there, just one of those ‘show gremlins strike again’ kind of things.


























































