NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th

wrong show in NY area - apologies... :^(

Would also like to hear impressions of the Muraudio room.

The muraudio audio room was one of, if not, THE, most underwhelming, to me. I got out of it that their intent was spraying the room with omnidirectional sound, IE, the same decent sound/soundstage, throughout the room, whereveer you sat (I didn't thikn as much standing, but close) and they succeeded. If they were trying for good 2 channel sound, not too much and last (or close to) for my tastes and ears.

Dropped by this morning and it was moderately busy. Some nice things, but most of the sound was boring or just plain bad. Highwater Sound had a very nice room and played tasteful jazz and classical. Jeff Catalano was going on with someone about how cables were absolute BS. If you like music on the louder side, MBL is the best I've heard. I generally hate big speakers with big solid state amps, but the MBLs play with absolutely no stress. The worst sound I heard by far was the big Focals in the VAC room. The speakers were probably too large for the room and there was no bass and a harsh midrange. The VPI room was pretty nice, with a pair of the big Tannoys. More my kind of speaker. The high point of the show for me was probably the Abyss headphones. I'm not a headphone person and I listened to several of the expensive phones, but the Abyss had the absolutely least confined sound of any phone I've ever heard. No sense of the sound coming from the earpads. Quite amazing.
So, all in all, it was worth the $30 and I hope to see more of them. $30 doesn't buy much entertainment (or anything else) nowdays, so it was pretty good.

Hi Chayro,
Was Jeff Catalano using the Horning speakers and what amplifiers was he using during your visit?
Charles,