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Audio Troy Capital Audio Fest the good, the bad and the ugly!

Just came back from the great Capital Audio Fest.

A lot of great rooms, a few surprises, missing brands, and some winners and losers.

The great:

Doug Whites The Voice that is system of Tidal gear, Innous Statement, and Tidal loudspeakers just was stunning sounding.

The big Genesis system in the Vpi room was quite excellent. 

The Old Forge room's Sound Kaos speakers were superb.

The Cat room with the Kef Blades proved the Kef Blades are a true contender with way more expensive loudspeakers.

Dadelius speakers sounded very good, unfortunately the system was $200k!

The Bad:

The $120k Devore's new reference speakers were good but not $120k good at this demo

More to come.

Dave and Troy
Audio Doctor NJ
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glupson
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I have to agree with Tidal. Unexpectedly great. One of the best there.

I will keep quiet on Daedalus. I am simply and apparently not a good match for them.

Is Devore you are talking about what was in Command AV room? The room that was billed as Luxman but had a few Luxman pieces and none to be heard?
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ntolson
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I work for LTA (full disclosure), and based on the press sheet I saw, that Daedalus (Randolph room) number isn't wildly off. There was simply lots of gear (incl cables) in that system, so it adds up.
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jsqt
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Is Devore you are talking about what was in Command AV room? The room that was billed as Luxman but had a few Luxman pieces and none to be heard?


I believe both the CL-1000 preamp and 300b amp were powering the Devores. It was hard to get a sense of how they sounded in that big cavern of a room through those speakers though.
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curiousjim
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Thanks for the report,
I’ll be waiting to read the rest.

JD
glupson
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jsqt,

Thanks for clarification. It was my fault for forgetting that Luxman has these tube amplifiers. In my defense, they were far.

I hope it was just the room. I was quite underwhelmed in there. Probably personal preference?
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