Best Speakers at RMAF 2011...?


What speakers impressed you at RMAF 2011 and why?
Anything underwhelming, despite the hype?

I found the following to be very intriguing and impressive.
- In no particular order:

1) Magico Q1
2) Totem Element (Fire)
3) Avalon Idea
4) Totem Hawk? (Hegel Room)
5) Evolution Acoustics MM Micro One
6) Joseph Speakers, Perspective

These speakers seemed to have a very good mix of macro and micro dynamics, bass response, articulation, musicality, sound stage and a seemingly limitless high frequency range.

At $2k, the Evolution Acoustics may be a bargain of the bunch.

Appreciate your thoughts...!
optimus
Yeah, I did help. I sat and listened to a couple of crossover iterations that Ryan put together for the Breeze.

What is your beef anyway? You mean the fans of various speakers shouldn't voice their opinions without disclosing they're fans?

Give it a rest.
One last point and then I'm done with you.

The reason I said that I'd like to hear the Cirrus again after the demo at RMAF, is because I don't own them, and no one anywhere near me has a set either. NOT EVEN RYAN. That's right Rosey. The owner of Vapor doesn't own a set of Cirrus. As fast as he makes them, they go out the door. Typically, when one is completed, it's up for a few days to break in and get measurements, and then it's gone. There's nothing set up in the listening room right now, and the last set I got to listen to was over a month ago. Since RMAF, I've gotten maybe four whole hours in front of a Cirrus. And up until this past May, I'd made a grand total of zero dollars "shilling" for Ryan in my hundreds of posts here at Audiogon.

Quit picking on Branislav too. He likes his set of Cirrus. Maybe he doesn't like amateur detectives throwing wild assertions around.

Quit looking for Boris Badenov around every corner, and go listen to some music instead.
http://parttimeaudiophile.com/2011/10/18/rmaf-2011-empirical-audio-yg-mach2music-bpt/

YG Kipod II Signature ($49k) were fronted by Empirical-modified JC-1 amps from Parasound ($10k), with the signal coming from Steve’s new DAC, fed by a Mach2Music Mac Mini server
I am confused now, is Aireaudio and Luvs2listen the same guy?

Raytheprinter, as I recall the Vapor Audio demo was done after hours in one of the YG Acoustics room and I think the equipment used was supplied by Emperical Audio. The amps he uses are the modded Parasound JC-1's and other modded sources.

Anyways, the tone I see from Luvs2listen (Aireaudio?) pretty much matches what went down with the last Vapor Audio thread regarding customer service issues. That thread was deleted unfortunately.