Larsen speakers, Pear Audio turntable
Larsen loudspeaker
HHR Exotic loudspeakers
HHR Exotic loudspeakers
HHR Exotic loudspeakers
HHR Exotic loudspeakers driver
Krell electronics
Magico loudspeaker parts
Magico loudspeaker parts
Magico loudspeaker parts
Magico loudspeaker parts
Baby Magico loudspeaker
Baby Magico loudspeaker side view
D’Agostino preamp
D’Agostino preamp
D’Agostino amp
D’Agostino amp
Magico loudspeaker
Weird. The Kharma speakers here sounded so underdriven, I actually asked the exhibitor if the speakers were new. As most of you know, we love sound of the Kharma speakers and they sound pretty darn good on the YouTube video of this room by AVShowrooms where you can hear just a little of the bass’s failure to open up.
He said they were two years old. There are still a wide-ranging number of possibilities of why I heard what I heard, including them not playing the speakers loud enough to break them in during that time, not having played them much recently and the speakers still warming up here on the second day of the show, and, of course, the Nagra not being able to drive the speakers. Typically, Kharma bass is hard to get right, but this reticence also included much of the midrange. Weird.
Kharma loudspeakers and Nagra electronics
Kharma loudspeakers and Nagra electronics
Nagra electronics
Nagra electronics
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000
Nagra
Nagra IV-S reel-to-reel
Nagra amplifier
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000
Dohmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000 and my finger (sorry)
Modulum loudspeaker platform
I find the GamuT loudspeakers to be the jewel of the GamuT family of high-end audio gear, and I would love to hear them driven by outrageously expensive world-class gear someday. The Pneuance folks demonstrated their new Pneupod feet – no doubt the ultimate realization of the old ‘inner tube under the component technique’ of vibration isolation – while I was here. They put their feet, inflated and then deflated under the Bricasti DAC and invited us to compare. With: bigger soundstage, more open and relaxed sound. Without: more immediate and alive. On many lower-end, slightly aggressive, solidstate systems probably a clear win. On this system… it was more a ‘choose your poison’ situation for me personally.
GamuT loudspeaker
Pear Audio Blue turntable
Pear Audio Blue turntable
Pear Audio Blue turntable
Rear of GamuT loudspeaker
Pneuance isolation platform
Pneuance isolation platform (bottom)
Bricasti DAC (on metal feet)
Bricasti DAC (on Pneupod feet)
Pneupod pneumatic isolation device
Pneupod pneumatic isolation device (new pump device)
GamuT M250i amplifier
Pneupods display
Piega loudspeakers and little Franco Serblin loudspeakers
Franco Serblin loudspeakers
Piega loudspeaker rear
Piega loudspeakers rear
Piega loudspeakers rear
Franco Serblin loudspeaker rear
Piega loudspeakers
Just this one photo of the Ayon electronics and Lumenwhite loudspeakers.
