I spend a few hours there Friday. Almost all the stuff is way out of my price range, but it's wonderful to hear the big bucks stuff for reference purposes. I have a few impressions to share.
I loved the MBLs again. The Raidho/Margules room was very impressive. Â
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The room (can't remember the name) with the cartridges of vanishingly low imperdence (0.2 ohms and lower!) was very *interesting* for sure: but why use them if you are going to run everything through a digital processor anyway?
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On the affordable side, I was for the nth time very pleased with the Wharfedale Linton Anniversary speakers: classic looks and what i thought was excellent sound for the money. I keep flirting with buying them, and may just do that.
On other notes, one impression I had was that I was in a lot of rooms in which a) I really would have liked to hear more good (by my lights) music (especially classical and piano) and less stuff selected for audiophile purposes; b) there were a good number of turntables and almost none of them being used; c) and my strongest impression, I was in alot of rooms that seemed way overloaded - just too small for the gear in them, at least played at that volume. I imagine that's just the nature of little hotel rooms, but it does make you wonder what the systems actually sound like.
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Still, lots of fun!
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Richard
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