Your favorite 3 rooms at RMAF

***dealer disclaimer******
note: some of the rooms I sell, some I don't.

I did nto hear everythign at the show, however I did hear most of the top rooms.

Both T+A rooms using Dynaudio special 25s and Sapphires sounded very good.

The Stillpoints room was making great music.

The Avalon room with the new Transcendents was sounding very good also.

Hegel had an impressive demo driving B&W 802s with a 2K integrated amplifier

MITs demo using 14 guage zip cord then AVT in wall modules and then Oracle HD Matrix was impressive.

The Evolution Acoustics room with Dartzeel was my favorite room of the show - very lifelike effortless sound and a very visceral image/soundstage.

Another disclaimer: I'm a friend of Sjofn HiFi. That said, there were very few rooms that for me were as engaging as Sjofn's with their new speaker "the clue". I won't go into superlatives, 'cuz it'll just sound like I'm trying to chat it up. I will say, tho, that Stereophile gave it a fantastic review Saturday night that was posted on their blog about the show.

I loved Hegel's rooms (I own a CDP4A), and Sjofn also uses their gear in the reference system.

The other rooms which I particularly liked were Coincident Speaker's (Israel Blume rocked the nuts off the fourth floor with fantastic dynamic sound and the amazing vanishing noise floor) and Emerald Physik which just had a sick holographic soundstage with their totally open baffle design. Also really enjoyed Focal's room, a lot. I think the room which was the most visually engaging was a reel to reel demonstration on the 5th floor of the Atrium, whose name escapes me right now.

Cheers!

I agree with the (1) Evolution Acoustics room. I enjoyed it so much I placed an order for a pair by the end of the day Friday.

My other favorites were (2) O'Hanlon's Vivid room and the (3) YG Carmels in the synergistic research room; the other YG demos, however, were a little disappointing.