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Axpona 2018

Went again this year and found the show to be larger, higher quality sounding rooms than previous shows. I have been to many brick and mortar stores which have good sounding rooms, but at Axpona this year many rooms were better sounding than their store show rooms!

My best sounding large room was the VAC/Von Schweikert Audio/Esoteric, room. The Wilson room with the DCS stack was also very good. My best small room, and there were many, was the Gershman Accoustics room, their new speakers were sounding great with top end electronics. Also, I was impressed with NOLA room again.

 

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schubert
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tute,
Very thoughtful of you to make such a great post for those who can't go  !

I hear you on the MBL's . In 50 years in audio by far the best Speakers I ever heard .










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david_ten
5,480 posts
 
Great posts in this thread. For those of you who attended and have posted, Thank You. Very informative.
raceone
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I heard the HHR exotics and IMHO the were quite harsh and metallic sounding and although the soundstage was huge it was also vague where instruments didn't really seem to have a place...they seemed to be coming from "everywhere". Most unimpressive for me. On the other hand the big MBL's were clearly (pun intended) in a league by themselves and were stunning. Sorry to disappoint but I always leave open the very real possibility that the source material during my listen or the listening room tuning was part of the problem. It was a very small room.
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benzman
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@kdude66 
I heard the A3 at Axpona and the S3 is a much better speaker. Much more refined in every way. I have my S3 for sale in the classified if you are interested. 
weebeesdad
138 posts
 
Anyone else hear the Cube Audio speakers??  Impressions?? 

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