NY Audio Show September 26th to September 28th

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,

The speakers that totally blew me away were the Volti Audio Horns. They probably needed a bigger room.

Charles - no, he wasn't using the Horning. He was showing the Verity Audio speakers. I forgot the model, but I think they were $25K, if that helps. I honestly can't remember what amps he was using, but the TT was TW Acustic, of course. Can't remember the model, but it wasn't anything huge. It was a very real-world system, unlike many others that require huge amounts of space. Frankly, I'm just not that much of a gearhead, where I'm taking note of every component.

Thanks Chayro,
I understand the gearhead comment. I know he's demonstrated the Horning before and was curious if you heard them that's all.vI've heard his rooms on three occasions but always with the Cessaro horn models.
Charles,