Capital Audiofest Coming Up!

Standouts a CAF:

Odyssey Audio top of the line floor standers driven by Stratos mono blocks

MBL room

Focal Grand Utopia Evo

9 ft tall Soundlabs driven by LTA amps

@ckr1969 Burmester 232 Integrated Amp.  It sounded great.  Reminded me of my Boulder 866 — very clean and engaging, great soundstage and accurately conveyed instrumental and vocal timbres.  

I also heard the Accuphase E-800 and E-5000 integrated amps.  Also impressive.  
 

Another standout for me was Songer Audio. In addition to one of my favorite sounds I heard, they did it with a beefy yet supposed 4 watt SET amp driving their modest-in-size custom full range field coil driver in a somewhat pricey yet performant design. Hats off! How did he do that?

Yes, I liked the Accuphase integrated amps I heard very much. Definitely made the cut for my short list for an upcoming integrated amp upgrade I have in mind.

Also kudos to Odyssey for showing probably the best overall sound value I heard at the show. 

The Maco open baffle quartz cabinet speakers impressed me as well and  were another nice find.