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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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twoleftears
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@verdantaudio I heard the MC Audiotech at the 2018 CAF and was really impressed by it.  Back then they were talking about a launch beginning of 2019.  When that didn't happen I kind of assumed that they had gone under.  Then they popped up again at 2019 CAF.

What I heard was really extraordinarily good.  Too big for my room, but really impressive.  Much much better than, for instance, the Muraudio, that a lot of people seem to like.  Clearly, MC needs more exposure.


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pops
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Glad I could help out tomic601.
bluorion
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This was my very first audio fest experience and we had a great time. We started early on Saturday morning since we were staying in the hotel. I noticed that most of the 'early birds' were older folks but as the day went on, there were more younger people there. It was great to see so many young people visiting the larger conference rooms. We had to checkout at 1 and head back home so unfortunately we didn't get to go to all the rooms.
My favs were the following:

1. Sanders Sound Systems--Beautiful sounding electrostatic speakers and amps. I was quite impressed.
2. Raven Audio--I never heard of them until the show.
3. Fern & Roby/LTA/Modwright--I finally met Dan Wright, super nice. The Fern and Roby Raven speakers sound great. Loved their new audio racks and TT.
4. LTA Headphone room--Super friendly folks there. A lot of fun.
5. VAC room--Amazing! It was like being in a museum. The equipment looked too beautiful (and expensive) to touch! 
6. Zu Audio. I wish they had more speakers but the Dirty Weekends were excellent. I was impressed that they were playing something other than jazz.

All in all it was a fun show---so happy I got to go this year. I will try to go to some of the seminars next year. Hopefully I'll be able to get to Axpona next year.
gaal
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My wife and I spent the majority of our time listening to the Sanders Sound System Model 10 and the Tekton Design Moab speakers. Both rooms featured lively sound that was affordable and emotionally binding. The LTA rooms were visited several times and always delivered a holographic image. I attended the show looking for a streamer and ended up purchasing the Lumin U1 Mini from Command Performance. For sure CAF 2019 was a strong success and looking forward to CAF 2020!
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