I have attended every year since the inception of RMAF and I found this year to be a little disappointing in some of the manfacturers that weren't there. However, I did enjoy seeing/hearing some products that I had not seen before. Adam-Audio stands out in my mind as a speaker that is fairly affordable and quite good in sound. Also getting to hear the new Totems was a good opportunity, I did find that some rooms were playing the same equipment and music they have for the past few years and it makes me wonder why they don't show something new. I wanted to hear the New Magicos and if they were there I didn't find them. Also it seemed that the TurnTable count was down this year. I always like to see what each manufacture has developed in vinyl playback but I would say about half as many were repesented. I would say attendance was down from past yeasr and according to one dealer I spoke with yesterday, many vendors were packing up early Sunday as they realized the show was over. Regardless of how the show came off I hope that it returns next year as I know I will attend. It is is a wonderful opportunity to see equipment not sold in the area and meet some people that share this passion. I just really hope I win the PowerBall before next years show, so that I can really enjoy it!
RMAF 2012 Postmortem
Doesn't seem to be an RMAF 2012 thread yet.
Wondering what people thought, so I'll make a start.
Best in Show:
The big Ventures. Hard to describe how good these speakers sounded without being sappy. IMHO, embarrassing to other "statement" speakers at the show, like the big TAD and Lansche.
I was mostly interested in high efficiency speakers. Especially good were:
Zu Defintion IV
Devore Gibbon 93 and 96
Sonist C4
The Sonists, playing in the Snake River system, sounded especially good considering their (comparatively) reasonable price.
A few other noteworthy speakers were
Vapor's new 3 way
Vivid's space alien rendition of a mini-tower in the Tweak geek room
The Evolution mini-monitor was the best (reasonably) accessible speaker I heard, at 2500. Very good.
Opinions based on information overload, over a day and a half of listening.
Any other impressions?
John
Wondering what people thought, so I'll make a start.
Best in Show:
The big Ventures. Hard to describe how good these speakers sounded without being sappy. IMHO, embarrassing to other "statement" speakers at the show, like the big TAD and Lansche.
I was mostly interested in high efficiency speakers. Especially good were:
Zu Defintion IV
Devore Gibbon 93 and 96
Sonist C4
The Sonists, playing in the Snake River system, sounded especially good considering their (comparatively) reasonable price.
A few other noteworthy speakers were
Vapor's new 3 way
Vivid's space alien rendition of a mini-tower in the Tweak geek room
The Evolution mini-monitor was the best (reasonably) accessible speaker I heard, at 2500. Very good.
Opinions based on information overload, over a day and a half of listening.
Any other impressions?
John
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