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Opinions - Best Sound at T.H.E. Newport 2013 Show?

So far I haven't seen a lot of commentary posted about last weekend's Newport show. I am interested in what anyone else thought was the best sounding room or most interesting product.

I was not impressed by most of the sound or products at this years show. I know that I'm generalizing, but I found the sound in most rooms to be mediocre at best. The rooms that were using room correction seemed to sound better, for the most part.

In my opinion, the best sound by far was in the EARO room. They had a rather simple setup, using Dirac room correction software. I thought that the sound from the 5" driver "Ulf" speakers was nothing short of amazing. I am seriously considering ordering a pair of these for my living room - if the sound as good as they did at the show I will be a happy camper.

I also enjoyed the sound in the SimpliFi room with the Klangwerk speakers. They were using their own DSPeaker correction hardware device.

Finally, I thought that the dc10Audio Berlin speakers were very interesting. I would like to hear them again, since the setup was less than optimal and the largish room was noisy, but the warm, lush horn sound was very different from the audio pablum produced in most of the other rooms.

Any other opinions?
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wcheng
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MBL room playing sgt pepper on reel to reel was revelatory
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nonoise
10,826 posts
 
Did anyone catch the Pioneer room?
If I had those when I began this hobby.....
:-)

All the best,
Nonoise
taters
1,149 posts
 
I thought the 400k Magico setup was a joke. I did like the Magico S-1 with Constellation electronics. I like the guy at Highwater sound. He really loves music and plays great stuff.
You won't hear Diana Krall in his room. Plus his system is vary musical. I think he runs Tron gear from England with a Tw-Turntable from Germany. I can't remember the speakers.

I thought for the money the Kef Ls-50's were the best bargain at the show. At 1500.00 you can't beat it. And they sound great. I also liked the Source Av room. It was a 50k home theater system that kicked ass. (I'm not usually a fan of home theater systems)

In the parking lot Billy Kim formally of L.A. audio was showing a room for home theater. He said it took 2 days to build it in the parking lot. I guess for 20k It's a good deal.
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russ69
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Last year I thought the Sanders electrostatics sounded best but they would not play any music other than their own so my opinion is not fully formed yet.
stanfurman
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I thought the show was crowded and most rooms would not allow a proper listen.

Rooms I liked:

Ayon, dc10audio, Gauder Acoustic (Grand Ball Room Hilton)

I thought the dc10audio Berlin was the most dynamic speaker at the show they played very loud with 18 watt LAMM mono blocks 40K and had some of the best most real tone simply amazing BASS and very, very, pretty. Ayon's big mono set up was very, very good too. The Gauder Acoustik solid state set up sounded both really awful with classic rock and also good with classical cd?

Sony room (Grand Ballroom Hilton)

Not very dynamic but peaceful room, good sound, nice people.

EARO room (3rd floor Hilton?)

Pure sound, nice set up, great people!

Magico (Grand Ballroom Hilton)

I came many miles to hear the Q7 and all I can say is the experience was totally boring and I'm tired of hearing that Magico is the world's best speakers they're not they might be the heaviest but they sound contrived not musical and not dynamic could have been the multi-million dollar set-up

Otherwise,

I much prefer RMAF better space better pace but no ocean!
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