T.H.E. Show in Costa Mesa on Friday

Thanks for the shoutout Neil.   We are happy to be able to get a pretty good setup in the hotel room and the system is sounding good.

Anyone who comes to the show please stop by and say Hello.

I haven't had time to visit much of the show yet but I'll say that Songer Audio a couple of doors down, I think room 350, has an excellent sounding system as well.

Jerry Stephenson

Room 354

I was really looking forward to hearing the Magicos, but somehow missed them.  Maybe they just weren't demoed at the time I was there.  Their Estelons sounded very nice.

Was also looking forward to hearing Focals (nope), MBLs (nope), and even some line arrays (nope).

Was interesting that many of the smaller speakers had more copious bass than many of the larger speakers, and could easily fill large rooms, but then very few were playing really loud, compressed rock music.

I’m going tomorrow 

Tonian Labs out of Burbank had one of the best rooms, especially considering it's $9500 speakers with a $4k Denon integrated amp .. as good or better than rooms 10x the price... By far the most transparent room in the show at any price... 

The J.Porter powered speakers from Austin were really good at $15k/pair too, Songer Audio from Oregon was also great but your getting into $40k pair speakers.

...sounds like a great show to attend to.....as an SoCal expat, I'm sorry I had to bail on LA  5 decades ago....

...but even so, it wouldn't have been worth the wait for it....

Enjoy....*S*

@toddalin ...as an owner of 4 large Heils....I'll agree that JBLs' are 'quick enuff' to pace the Heils....👍  All that's left is to 'go 10' and crack the sheetrock...;)