We will now be carrying the Acoustic Zen Adagio loudspeaker

… as well as the Acoustic Zen line of cables (which we have been recommending for years – even though they are not quite in the stratospheric, some might say astronomical :-), price range as the cables we generally prefer here).

But the Adagios are not just a good value, they are an exceptional value. We believe them to be a high-end loudspeaker at a lower mid-fi price of $4300

We have a number of customers (and fans) who get a little short of breath (or their significant others do :-)) when they think about purchasing $50K speakers.

We will also be getting in, hopefully in the near future, the $12K or so Marten Design Miles III and Kharma 3.1c loudspeakers – which are also near-full-range like the Adagios.

And of course there are the Audio Note U.K. loudspeakers at these price ranges for those who just want a speaker to sound good šŸ˜€

All of these speakers we have heard either many times or for many hours – and they have our full respect and we have recommended them many times.

Although we specialize in the ultimate cost-no-object high-end audio system, we really do try to help people with systems in all price ranges.

I guess what all this means is that people who actually make it to the store here will soon get a chance to hear that there are a few bargains out there (a very few) and that in the end you get what you pay for – but there can be happiness, satisfaction and pride-of-ownership at every price range.

You just need to stay away from the crap and the glitter and the over-hyped junk.

Just to give y’all out there some perspective, we will soon have loudspeakers here at AF that are $250K, $145K (on sale, somebody buy these now please :-), $55K, $50K, $40K, $33K and now…. $4K.

OK, a picture of the Adagio speakers similar to the ones we will be getting in a few days.

Acoustic Zen Adagio loudspeakers

Off to attend the first day of the CEDIA EXPO 2006

The CEDIA EXPO  Daily Newspaper
The CEDIA EXPO Daily Newspaper

Kind of nice for them to snail mail everyone who registers this daily. ‘Course, we did pay $50 to register…

It has a nice map of the convention inside… Maybe I should photo that….

Anyway, news in the paper mentioned that Rives (the roo-treatment company) bought Talon (the loudspeaker company)…

O….. K……

When we get back we’ll post some photos here and in the CEDIA EXPO 2006 Denver Show Report Dailies.

Updating the SoundLab Ultimate 1 electrostatic loudspeakers

Our Soundlabs are temporarily gutless – we sent their innards back to the factory for a couple of upgrades:

The Soundlab Ultimate loudspeakers, with Kharma's Mini Exquisites in front and a EDGE Signature One monoblock amp behind
The Soundlab Ultimate loudspeakers, with Kharma’s Mini Exquisites in front and a EDGE Signature One monoblock amp behind

The Soundlab Ultimate loudspeakers, where the transformer goes when it is here
The Soundlab Ultimate loudspeakers, where the transformer goes when it is here.

The U1’s should be a good deal more efficient when they get reassembled – and their sound will be as good (or better!) as it was before.

Can’t wait!

A complete report will be forthcoming when we get everything going again and broken in…