Capital Audiofest Coming Up!

@aldnorab - Midwest AudioFest was so much fun. Lots of really great attendees and vendors. Wish it was still going....

Mapman 

An to be there all day today, we'll try to hook up.

Not sure where I'll be, usually start with breakfest in the hotel restaurant, seem to be tradition for me now.

Wanted to be there yesterday but my furnace prevented that.

Hoping to find something special in the smaller rooms.

Take care.

Me

was there yesterday, a few rooms I recommend:

High Water Sound (room 323) - Cessaro speakers; expensive but Jeff Catalano always has a great room and plays good music.

Gestalt Audio (room 325) - very cool new speakers - Cinnamon Audio from Portugal; @lalitk Colin King says “hello”

American Sound of Canada (room 641) - Angie is running Rethm speakers with a Synthesis integrated and a cool new German turntable.  Great system for reasonable price.  

Fern & Roby (room 616) - Christopher Hildebrand is one of the nicest people in the biz, and Ivreally like his new amp.

Odeon Audio ( room 636) - Never heard their horns before, but impressive.

Rooms to avoid - any room Michael Fremer has taken over to play his lps; his ego has taken over his body, and his taste in music is meh.  I had to walk out of a Command Performance room where they were showing AudioVector speakers that sounded pretty good cuz his music was so bad

Had a full day there today.

There was a lot to like!

I need to go through my notes first to point out a few highlights.

The mbl room is one I can cite as candidate for best sound. They seemed to get it right in every way in their room this year even if not yet even close to what I know mbl can do with soundstage and imaging based on prior showroom demos. A class of their own!

There were many others that caught my ear as well yet in different ways.

@mdalton

Thanks for your impressions on CAF. I agree with you on HWS, Gestalt and F&R…always a pleasure to meet them in person and their choice of gear + sound is usually in my Top 10. I almost bought F&R TT before I decided to pursue Garrard. 301. If you go back to @gestalt, say my hello to Colin.

@mapman 

+1 on MBL, wish I could afford to buy one of their offerings.  My alternative to MBL’s are WVL. While not as pretty as MBL, WVL are really great sounding speakers.