New York HiFi Show: Tubes and Turntables
I was at the New York HiFi Show today. It was hard to find many CD players, despite one with a price tag $40,000. Virtually every room featured turntables and tubes. Sonically, it was a definite improvement over shows in the past. Not too much sizzle and boom, although a lot of systems demonstrated big bass. Natural sounding components were the rule.
There were hardly any systems affordable by the average audiophile. $100,000 rigs were not unusual. It seems demonstrators were prone to showing their best.
With all the myriad of exotic stuff, I’m sorry I can’t remember too many names, but the re-introduction of sophisticated treble and bass controls and room-conditioning processors were impressive.
Of course, streaming was featured in many displays.
It wasn’t a large show, so it was comfortably do-able in one day.
There were hardly any systems affordable by the average audiophile. $100,000 rigs were not unusual. It seems demonstrators were prone to showing their best.
With all the myriad of exotic stuff, I’m sorry I can’t remember too many names, but the re-introduction of sophisticated treble and bass controls and room-conditioning processors were impressive.
Of course, streaming was featured in many displays.
It wasn’t a large show, so it was comfortably do-able in one day.
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' Audio shows are "Gear" conventions, not conventions for music appreciation. " http://ohmspeaker.com/news/standing-room-only/ Note the "slogan" |
@mapman the Ohm room disappointed me more than any other. Honestly, if what they displayed represents the product accurately, I cannot even consider these speakers to offer anything approaching high fidelity. Now, it's not that I don't consider myself an Ohm supporter. My friend has one of the few (11?) pairs of Walsh A, that Lincoln Walsh began putting together prior to his sudden and untimely death. My friend is a well known loudspeaker magician, and got the speaker working as he felt it should. I've been around more speakers than I can count, and these are the single most impressive loudspeaker I've encountered. In fact, when he illustrates how the speaker works in comparison to everything else, every other loudspeaker design doesn't seem to have a prayer. Now, that's all well and good, but the important and obvious question is how do they sound? Well, it's the only loudspeaker that I've experienced that can take hold of your insides and literally scare you to death. And going up from the low frequencies, everything sounds as good as it gets. For what it's worth, I found a couple of rooms that offered what I considered good sound, despite their usual affordability, Cambridge among them |
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