Tekton room at the Los Angles Audio Show.


Any reports on the Tekton room at the Los Angles Audio Show?
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Thanks to everyone who attended the show and visited the Positive Feedback - Getting Started room (Suite 533). Glad most of you enjoyed your time there. As someone already mentioned, our choice of equipment to setup and music to play was almost 100% by request. We swapped speakers over 30 times per day, and electronics almost as often. 

We tried to be as clear as possible that we were not representing any of the manufacturers. Our display was more of an educational room, or at least an opportunity to experience lower cost systems in a show environment. We had nine sets of speakers, five integrated amps, one preamp/power amp combination. four turntables, two music servers (PC based) three record washers, and a bunch of DACs and accessories. 

One person commented on the center seat second row sounding better, and that was the seat we positioned everything and tuned the speaker positioning for. The Double Impacts were a difficult fit in that room, and we positioned them for the best compromise between overall tonality, bass response and imaging. We played a Flaming Lips LP during setup, and the bass resonated with the furniture on the opposite wall so badly that some things shook off onto the floor. If you looked, you would have seen several bed pillows jammed between the dresser and the wall to damp that out.

Maybe some people were too shy to ask, but we tried to make it clear we would swap gear out as requested, and even set appointment times to have certain combination ready when people returned.

Someone also mentioned they were told the speakers weren't broken in. Not sure who said that. I did virtually all the demos all three days, and except for mentioning once that an amplifier had been turned off and needed a few minutes to warm up, never mentioned break-in or warm-up about any piece in the room.

I have those Double Impacts at home now, and will be reviewing them for Positive Feedback down the road a little. 

The Schiit Freya / Vidar combo may be low priced, but we also used them with the Maggie .7 speakers, and the folks from Magnepan checked our setup out and felt we had superb sound with their speakers and the Schiit electronics.

We had a blast the whole show. We were standing room only the entire time. I really enjoyed not having a set playlist, instead playing music from Tidal HiFi or my Server based on whatever people wanted to hear. Probably the only room at the show that played Diana Krall, Black Sabbath, Sublime and Enya on the same day! 
 
I appreciate the comments from everyone. We'll do this again, though a little differently, next year.

Steve Lefkowicz
Senior Associate Editor
Positive Feedback

       Over the years I have attended a number of audio shows and I have always enjoyed them. The one thing that never changes is that the manufacturer of the speaker, amplifier, turntable, processor or whatever piece of equipment you discuss absolutely has to make certain that their equipment is at its very best if they want to favorably impress people who attend the show. The whole purpose of demoing equipment at these shows is to further the marketing of the product -if the manufacturer doesn't take every possible measure to maximize that goal, shame on them. At best, these audio shows are fun to attend and listen to the available equipment. I really don't think, however, they provide a good way to compare and make purchasing decisions regarding speakers, amplifiers or any other piece of equipment. The vast number of variables including, but not limited to, the effort put into, or lacking, in the setup of the system makes comparisons of equipment somewhat unreliable. Fun but probably not a reliable way to make a purchasing decision.

Steve,

Thank You for taking the time to give us more info about the positive feedback room.

I personally haven't been to any audio show in several yrs,I used to go all the time,but that doesn't mean that I don't like reading about them.

I know it can be a very hard and demanding job to get good sound out of some of those small rooms and especially when you have multiple speakers and or components to switch around.

Looking forward to a complete review of the DI's,
maybe you could inform us here on audiogon when published.

Best,

Kenny.
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