2020 FLORIDA AUDIO EXPO WHICH ROOMS would YOU VISIT?

BlindJim....just call Dave at Raven.  You already heard the speakers and saw his amps.  I have first hand experience with both.  Dave can get you the best set-up possible for your budget.  Trust me....Trust Dave.  

thanks for the heads up and offer to assist.

I’m not in a position to make a purchasing decision just yet.

I am glad I’ve seen what I’ve seen recently however via the fla expo. also, I’m still torn between going with Horns or cones.

as well, I’m awaiting culmination of some legal action which appears favorable but whose time line is beyond my control.

again, thanks for the offer but I’d never obligate anyone to anything by way of auditions if I did not have the funds to pay for it before hand.

sadly, I just gotta wait a while longer. be well. .

Blindjim...I had Sonus Faber Amati Tradition Homage speakers that I thought were fantastic.  I sold my home and the buyers demanded my whole two channel system.  The good news is I got to start over.  I went on a speaker hunt this past summer.  I never in a million years thought I would be interested in Horn speakers.  Then, i listened to a pair of Avantgarde speakers and I became intrigued.  From there on I was on a horn mission.  I love the sound of horn speakers and i decided on Viking Acoustic Grande Voix speakers.  

Heck of a story;. Glad things worked out for ya in discovering new worlds. going where you had not ventured before!

My first few rigs ended up sounding quite similar though with bvaried SS pieces.

then half and half HS & SS.

then came the ‘all in’ idea on a 100% hollow state power train and my world changed utterly. in a very positive way.

suddenly, life happend as it tends to do. crack heads. home invasion attempts. then downturns in orthopedic health. it al made what was on hand vanish, almost entirely and all for security’s sake..

a few more episodes in health and senseless delays in due process.

then in that period I got to see what several other’s in my area had erected for themselves, here and there.

it all has been educational, and eye opening on numerous fronts.

the tube amps alone set up the notion ffor using other tube amp topologies than ultralinnear or sET EL34s and then came my AG Unos, AG D
Duos, and later, other horns.

the 2019 FLA show aided and added to my horn education. aG showed later ver of aG Uno w/powered bass unit, and its trios. I was not enamored and lent it towards the particular setup or musiccal choices in play for whatever reason.

Classic Audio horns of them all grrabbed me most. a friend owns original Klipschorns and they are interesting in spite of being 30 years old.

the unsettling aspect for me is knowing there are untold ways and means to get a piece of audio heaven in your listening room but feel to date tubes are the mile markers for me to follow on the high way to fun in audio land.

the particular ingredients freemain to be seen, and I supppose that is where the intrigue and interst which compells me is imbedded.

guess its true as Kipling said, life is not a riddle to be puzzled out, but a mystery to be lived.
THX
JIM

actually Play it again Sam… was implied. not truly spoken/requested by ngrid Bergman of Sam, (Arthur ‘Dooley’ Wilson).

Elsa only looked at sam and said, ‘play it once Sam’, Sam said he coudn’t remember it, and Elsa said, “Play it Sam. Play As Time Goes By”.

It pays to be accurate and that had bugged me since I so hastily posted it. sorry.

as for those rooms which reached out and grabbed me, here are a few, though not all of them, Enjoy the Music, & AV Showrooms posted these videos and or accounts for a few of them and many more:

spacial audio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9c99s1wvgw&feature=em-uploademail

VAC, Daedalus, Lampizator, Wywires, Great Sounding Room
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAKET0dVjBI&feature=em-uploademail

Raven Audio FLAX 2020
http://www.enjoythemusic.com/Florida_Audio_Expo_2020/Rochlin/Raven_Audio_Soniquil.htm

yet again I missed MBL & vac/vsa. merely from the overall price tags hearing something I can not afford simply makes little sense to me. Usually.

routinely   rooms had far more $$$ in front of the speakers doing the hauling than the other way around.
FMM, Gershman, Daedalus, Raven, and Spacial had the goods in loud speaker values.

Pure audio project and Volte also had splendid offerings as did Joeseph Audio newest revamped Graphine tower driven yet again by Doshi Audio Electronics and cardas Clear cabling.
I’m hard pressed to think how any of these setups would not satisfy most card carrying audionuts for quite some time.
Dear Santa, I doubt I’ll end up being a good enough human being to qualify for the VSA/VAC or MB> demos shown this year at fLAX so how about something a bit more humble such as the Daedalus, Raven, Spacial, Volte, or Pure Audio Project room setup ending up near my tree later this year?

I’ll trust your judgement. Merry …