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High Water Sound – Axpona 2018

High Water Sound plays, like, consistently THE best music. Makes the rest of us look like… I don’t know … wannabes. I know, other rooms can play good music too, including ours [trying not to get into trouble with Neli and Hermann here :-)] but seriously folks, if you play music people have heard before, THEIR music, they will be able to understand how your system lets them hear new things, achieve new levels of enjoyment, with something they already do – an obvious benefit to their current lives.

The preamplifier – those two knobs are the input selector and volume control

TW Acoustic “Raven” turntable

Horning Hybrid loudspeaker

Odyssey Audio – Axpona 2018

Starting on floor 4…

Too much talking and too little listening – none in fact; blame it on too little sleep – but Klaus typically puts together systems under $10K that compete with that much more expensive gear often seen at your local neighborhood high-end dealerships.

VPI Turntables were everywhere

 

Day Three – Whirlwind tour floors 5 and 2

The last day…

 

Odyssey Audio

Gobel speakers on CH Precision

Luxman turntable

SOtM electronics on Magico S1 MkII speakers

Rainbow Audio

Burwell & Sons speaker

Parts Express [love this display 🙂 Don’t know why…! ]

Metronome Kalista CD transport

Portable XLO cable display

Legacy Audio AMT ribbon tweeter

Von Schweikert speakers on VAC electronics [awesome scale and filled the big room with sound]

Raidho speakers playing Rage Against the Machine “Know Your Enemy” at 100dB. No distortion, even off axis like this.

The expo. Is it just me or…?

Our room with The Acapella Audio Arts Cellini High speakers. The full show report will be forthcoming.

Day Two – Whirlwind tour floors 6, 7, 15, 16

Whew! A lot of rooms…

Avantgarde horns on Esoteric electronics

 

Big Piega speakers on Soulution electronics (little Franco Serbin speakers in foreground)

Exquisite implementation of the old “inner tube under the components” technique for vibration control

Doehmann Helix One turntable, with Schroeder CB11 arm and Phasemation P2000

Kharma speakers on Nagra electronics

Itty bitty Magico cutaway speaker dislpay

HHR exotic speakers

The Headphone lounge

 

Hugh Masekela “Stimela” on tape played on Joseph speakers and Jeff Rowland electronics. Nice 🙂

Whammerdyne

Riva’s Google-Home-driven wireless speakers

Technics direct-drive turntable motor

Daedalus speakers on Lampizator electronics – very nice

I thought this Alta Audio speaker system also sounded very nice